Word: thin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles was too busy to mind. It was in the thick of one of its periodic reform dramas, beggaring any movie and featuring a bomb, a Thin Man, a false-bottomed...
...governing commissions from police to parks. Grandstanding District Attorney Buron Fitts then joined the graft hunt, impaneled a grand jury. First graft flushed was in the civil service examinations for promotions in the police and fire departments. When an influential Mexican-born police lieutenant named Peter ("The Thin Man") Del Gado, a great friend of Police Chief James Edgar Davis, denied taking bribes to tamper the examinations, he was indicted for perjury. Last fortnight Thin Man Del Gado gave a friend $15,000 to pay his bail bond, disappeared...
Stripped to the bone, Rocket to the Moon is a triangle play: the story of a kindly, thin-blooded, tired dentist (Morris Carnovsky) who has accepted life at prevailing odds, surrendered to routine, "gone to sleep." His bitter nagging wife and his sinister, mocking father-in-law (Luther Adler) appreciate his goodness, yet cannot help taunting him. From a romantic young girl (Eleanor Lynn) in his office who is fighting to live, do, go somewhere, and who loves him. he gets sympathy. Suddenly he finds himself in love with her. But when the showdown comes, he stays with his wife...
Gruen, noted for its slender, popular-priced watches, had done little business during Depression. It was run by two quiet, conservative brothers, Fred and George Gruen, sons of Founder Dietrich Gruen, who died in 1911 after making the first thin pocket watch by flattening out the movement. With a Swiss chalet-style factory called Time Hill in Cincinnati, and another in Biel, Switzerland, the Gruens operated along conservative lines, licensed one or two dealers to a city, clung to the prestige of their name regardless of profits...
...Henie was skating in Houston's new $2,500,000 Coliseum, so 3,000 delegates to the annual convention of the American Bankers Association had to be content last week with the old City Auditorium. There the nation's bankers cut many a fancy figure on the thin ice of their New Deal relations...