Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plenty; starvation and unnecessary suffering in a land of abundance; discontent and distress in a country more blessed by Providence than any other on the face of the globe, and to gain for individual lives, and for the nation as a whole, that 'health and peace and sweet content' which is the rightful heritage...
...last week in bed. San Francisco's Board of Supervisors stopped work long enough to pass a resolution wishing her "many happy returns." The Chief of Police sent flowers. So did Mayor Angelo Rossi, who is by trade a florist. But what warmed the old heart of Winifred Sweet Black Bonfils most was a pair of solemn little Kerry Blues shipped by special plane from William Randolph Hearst...
...Sweet Mystery of Life (by Richard Maibaum. Michael Wallach & George Haight; Herman Shumlin, producer). Written with one eye on Broadway's hilarious Three Men on a Horse and the other on Hollywood, this farce exhibits the psychological rejuvenation of a grouchy department store tycoon (Gene Lockhart) who fancies himself ready to die. Three scheming vice presidents plan to insure his life, then talk him into his grave. Hastily summoned is a moony ager.t (Hobart Cavanaugh) of Good Life Insurance Co. who observes that "Life Insurance is Immortality." finds himself the dazed recipient of commissions...
Overdone in spots and half-baked in others. Sweet Mystery of Life proves chunky, pug-nosed Gene Lockhart (Ah, Wilderness!) a comedian who can make much out of little. One member of the cast who seems to enjoy himself is bulky Broderick Crawford, son of owl-eyed Comedienne Helen Broderick...
...think-and I started to read it, but it didn't make sense to me. One of my boys I named William Shakespeare- after me, not the play writer. I don't take much stock in names. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, as the fellow said...