Word: swags
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...know them, because they've paid attention only to the particular lines of descent that had the money and the prestige. And 99 times out of 100 those lines of descent got their money and prestige-like the royal families of Europe-by grabbing some swag 300 years ago and holding on for dear life ever since...
...Francis) decides to inveigle her divorced husband's second wife and the man (George Brent) with whom she is misbehaving to a mountain lodge, have the husband discover them there. The plan works perfectly until a pair of jewel thieves appear at the lodge also, hide their swag in a fireplace...
Thereafter, the comedy in The Goose and the Gander consists of the efforts of the guests at the lodge to conceal their identities. The picture's suspense is contributed by the jewel thieves' attempts to retrieve their swag. Its charm resides in the fact that George Brent can wrinkle his nose whereas Kay Francis cannot pronounce "r." Good shot: a bedazzled police chief (Spencer Charters) trying to make the company at the lodge explain what they...
...found the triple bread line: Rye. White. Whole Wheat. Two melancholy goats ask. "What do people do with their garbage nowadays?" Political note: An unmistakable plutocrat with cigar and limousine appears above the caption: "The manufacturer of shirts of various colors." A fleeing burglar carrying an undersized parcel of swag is hailed as an encouraging omen...
...France and Britain had already split the swag in anticipation by the secret Sykes-Picot Agreement. With the Armistice both powers took steps to be sure that no Arab state of real importance could arise by cutting off the richest territory as league of nations mandates. Mesopotamia with its rich Tigris-Euphrates valley went to Britain as Irak; France took Syria, also rich in oil. Aden, at the mouth of the Red Sea, had been British since...