Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disdain for her family bankroll. If, even in 1928, it was a little difficult to take seriously the plight of a hero and heroine whose chief problem was the prospect of having too much money, it would seem impossible to do so ten years later. Surprise of the third edition of Holiday is that it surmounts this apparent handicap without trying and emerges, thanks to Screenwriters Donald Ogden Stewart and Sidney Buchman, Director George Cukor and a cast brilliantly headed by Katharine Hepburn, as superior to both its high-grade predecessors...
...appeal was practically nil. Highly responsive to the cajolings of pudgy, moon-faced Director Cukor, she gives her liveliest performance since appearing in his Little Women-Restoring Cinemactress Hepburn's prestige is not the only coup Columbia will score if Holiday proves a box-office hit for the third time. The company acquired the script for practically nothing, by paying RKO $80,000 for a batch of shelved stories which also turned out to include its current hit, The Awful Truth. As an adapter, Screenwriter Stewart was an obvious, as well as fortunate, selection. One of Playwright Barry...
...Joseph Moclair, a third-string Manhattan entry, defeated two champion distance runners in the two-mile race, in record-breaking time of 9 min., 21.2 sec., the most startling upset of the meet...
...totals were tallied, the University of Southern California, absent from I.C. 4-A meets since 1935, had spreadeagled the field, won the team championship for the eighth time since it first competed 14 years ago. Although its 17-man team won only two events and tied for a third, it placed in the ten events in which it was entered, amassed a total of 4?i points, almost twice as many as the runner-up, Michigan State...
...Fort Myer, Va., the Army's Third Cavalry Regiment last week lost its bugler. Plumpish, firm-lipped Staff Sergeant Frank Witchey, 46 (The Army reckons him 48 because he lied about his age when he enlisted 30 years ago), doffed his uniform, retired. With his retirement, history turned a page. He sounded taps for the Unknown Soldier, for many an -Army brass hat, for Woodrow Wilson, William Jennings Bryan, Leonard Wood, William Howard Taft...