Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Make A Wish (RKO). Producer Sol Lesser, who guided the tiny footsteps of Jackie Coogan and Baby Peggy to their place among the infant stars, last week presented his present protege, Bobby Breen, in his third leading role. Nine-year-old Actor Breen (real name: Isidore Borsuk), whose Irish nomenclature imperfectly disguises him and whose shrill nasal singing tends to raise the hackles of the sensitive, is one of radio's gifts to the cinema. Basil Rathbone, who is forced by the exigencies of his role to regard this child with affection, was never cooler...
...wheezing jalopy, stolidly qualified for the U. S. Amateur. Everyone had heard of him after the first day of match play because he put out the great Bobby Jones in the first round. Nowadays Goodman sells much more insurance, travels in better cars, wears better clothes. He was third-best amateur in the 1929 U. S. Open second-best in 1930, best in 1932 and again this year. In 1933 he won the Open against a held of crack professionals. In the U S Amateur he was runner-up in 1932 and a semifinalist in 1935 and 1936, but never...
Colonel Robert T. Barton, Richmond, Virginia Democratic Committee Chairman, wrote Lieut.-Governor James H. Price, Democratic nominee for Governor, begging him, if elected, to appoint to his staff "some trenchermen and tanks." Complained Chairman Barton: "I am reliably informed that the Governor of Kentucky's third team can down in these activities any and all opposition in Virginia. The present staff lacks men who can throw good parties...
...Lazard family and certain other Anglo stockholders against Banker Herbert personally and the bank, charging in substance that he had used his position as Anglo president to wangle profits on the side for himself. This was the suit which last fortnight came to trial on the third floor of San Francisco's post-office building in the marble and plaster-cupid encrusted courtroom of Federal Judge Adolphus Frederick St. Sure...
...every 37 entrants in the contest -54.000 contestants all told-got all the answers to the rirst group of puzzles right. A second set of 90 more difficult puzzles was mailed to them, to be solved in ten days. One in every six-9,000-came through this. A third set of 90 puzzles most fiendishly devised served only to prove the calibre of the 9,000, of whom 8,160 returned correct answers in five days. In accordance with the rules, the contest thereupon became literary, each survivor having to submit an essay on the increased popularity...