Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fair deal," said Ernest Thurtle, author of the Bill, "to take a man from a farm or a factory, clap a tin hat on his tead, and then shoot him if his nerve fails...
...Hunter. Critic Irene Thirer of the New York Daily News referred to this picture as a "barkie," which is one way of saying that its most startling sound effects are produced by a dog?famed Rin Tin Tin. He helps to apprehend a villain, the unscrupulous manager of a tropical rubber plantation (John Loder), and is thereby a great satisfaction to the comely heiress who, among other things, has been willed the plantation. In the course of the story Charles Delaney becomes variously but strongly attached to both girl...
...They were pure-blooded Belgian police dogs with skinny ratlike bodies and long black noses. The litter was divided and one Lee Duncan, lieutenant in the U. S. aviation corps, got a handsome male and a young bitch. There was a story going around then about two lovers, Rin Tin Tin and Nanette, the only people left alive in a French town after it had been shelled. U. S. doughboys were giving their sweethearts images of these lucky lovers, little dolls made of worsted Duncan took the name for his dogs. The bitch died, but Rin Tin Tin reached California...
...finding the landlord snooping in his room, Fred Brown removed his belongings, moved to a large tank near the railroad. Annoyed by curious townsfolk, Fred Brown had the ends of his tank sliced off for doors, hoisted the tank into Tom Green's tree, put a strip of tin around the bottom of the tree so no one could climb up quietly. Below his tree, he put a chicken yard; grew vegetables nearby. Annoyed by chicken thieves, Fred Brown tied a flag to the door of the henhouse so that it would flap when anyone opened the door. Annoyed...
Oscar Shaw suavely appears as an aviator who wins a transcontinental air race and the hand of a delectable blonde heroine with an excellent voice (Grace Brinkley). The inveterate Tin Pan Alley trio of De Sylva, Brown & Henderson contribute one song ("Thank Your Father") which is likely to be favored. Joseph Urban has designed several salons which are totally unlike those at any airport in the country...