Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faults. When an interloper (Dudley Digges) circled his sheep pasture with woven-wire fence, hog-tight, bull-strong, and horse-high, Spring held him for an enemy although his own son Benjy (Eric Linden) loved the interloper's daughter, Camden (Maureen O'Sullivan). One night of good hunting, a dog's pain-yip in the dark and a trail of Bugle Ann's footsteps stopping at the interloper's gate made Spring feel that his neighbor had killed his lady. Therefore he killed the interloper with a bullet from his lever-action Winchester...
...milksop forced by fate to be a prizefighter. However, unlike Chaplin's Modern Times (TIME, Feb. 17) which would have been nonexistent without Chaplin, The Milky Way might have been a shade funnier if Producer Lloyd had cast someone other than himself in the leading role. Burleigh Sullivan (Lloyd), a craven milkwagon driver who, in order to preserve his feeble physique, has perfected the art of ducking punches, tries to rescue his sister (Helen Mack) from two drunks. When he ducks a punch from one of the drunks, it knocks out the other, who turns out to be Middleweight...
...were supposed to divide a fabulous estate left by Sir Francis Drake, 16th Century English sea rover. Wholesale exonerations had so reduced the ranks of the accused that last week only eight of those originally indicted remained in court to hear sentences passed against them. Federal Judge Philip L. Sullivan began by imposing five years imprisonment on Canfield Hartzell. Hartzell's brother Oscar had started out as a "Drake Estate" sucker, gone to England in 1922. switched to the receiving end of the racket and ended up with a ten-year sentence in Leavenworth. Again on trial in Chicago...
Taken aback, Judge Sullivan postponed sentencing the defendants, ordered a thoroughgoing psychiatric examination for Oscar Hartzell. "Your Honor," pleaded exhausted Defense Counsel Edward J. Hess, "if Hartzell is nutty, so are all the rest of them...
...there are two sides to every question. In order to finish on a reassuring note, to leave us with a happy and renewed faith in the sincerity and honesty of our government, Mr. Sullivan concludes with a few words from the mouth of the President himself.--"The merit system in Civil Service is in no danger at my hands; but on the contrary, I hope that it will be extended and improved during my term as President...