Word: suiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with S.W.O.C. without a fight). Ever an outspoken man, Tom Girdler expressed himself freely on the situation last week. He insisted that 21,000 of his 50,000 workers were still on the job, that his mills were shipping 8,000 tons of steel daily. Reporters asked about a suit started by Stockholder Robert W. Northrup of Toledo, who complained that Republic's officers had spent $1,000,000 on arms & ammunition not required in the steel business. "He's crazy," laughed Tom Girdler. But hadn't the company laid in arms in anticipation of a strike...
Frankly a grind, Paul van Zeeland's extracurricular activities were limited to taking long walks in the country and pitching pennies at a crack in the sidewalk, but no roistering senior in a beer suit was ever more loyal to Old Nassau. Punctually every year Paul van Zeeland sends cards to every instructor under whom he studied. In the autumn of 1934 when Paul van Zeeland and a Yale friend attended an important banking conference, the latter scribbled the just-arrived score of a football game on a card and slipped it to the former-Yale 7; Princeton...
...cinema production, Parnell ranks high. Everything in it, from the London fog to the handles on the doors of Parliament, rebuilt life-size on a sound stage, is scrupulously authentic. As history, it ranks low, since it not only telescopes Parnell's career but also whitewashes it to suit the Hays office. As entertainment, it ranks in between. The screen play by John Van Druten & S. N. Behrman is literate but logy; John Stahl's direction is stately but pedestrian; Myrna Loy behaves as though she missed The Thin Man, and not even mutton chop whiskers...
...well as in Author Schauffler's play. He vindicated himself of complicity in Dublin's grisly Phoenix Park murders, got Gladstone to back his Home Rule bill, fell in love with red-haired Katie O'Shea. Her husband Willie connived at their romance until it suited his purpose to sue for divorce. When Parnell failed to defend the suit, he lost not only the public that had idolized him but Gladstone's support for his bill and all chance of Home Rule for Ireland. He died a year later...
Like many historic happenings, Parnell's rise & fall contain potentialities of majestic drama. This picture explains Willie's suit for divorce as a somewhat transparent device to blackmail Parnell into giving him a political job. It shows Parnell dying of a stroke almost immediately after his Party has deserted him and before his marriage to Katie. It is at its best in earlier sequences showing Parnell speaking in Parliament at the time of the trial arising from the Phoenix Park case. Best bit part: Brandon Tynan, Dublin-born actor, who got 27 curtain calls the night...