Word: tools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...More Spring (Fox) deals with three Manhattan victims of Depression who, instead of resorting to the bread lines, take up their residence in a Central Park tool shed. One is a furniture dealer (Warner Baxter) whose sole reminder of previous affluence is a gigantic antique bed. One is a violinist (Walter King), who finds himself humiliated in his efforts to practice in public by kindly passersby who mistake him for a street musician. The third is a demure actress (Janet Gaynor) who meets the furniture dealer when both are trying to filch a supper from the open kitchen windows...
...Chairman Jones listened in the House Press Gallery, he heard fellow Democrats on the floor denounce the RFC as a tool of the bankers, heard Republicans champion it as the salvation of the country. No G.O.Partisan forgot for a moment that it was President Herbert Hoover who had the RFC created in January 1932, and who, by proclamation, continued it for a second year. When Franklin Roosevelt became President, he scorned this Old Deal agency for many a month, allowed it to lapse almost out of sight. When he finally got around to coordinating it into his recovery program...
...Coffin of Colorado Agricultural College and his brother made a find in a dry arroyo that brought Dr. Frank Harold Hanna Roberts on the run from the Smithsonian Institution. Beneath 20 feet of ancient soil, Dr. Roberts laid bare what must have been a teeming Ice Age campsite and tool factory. Besides 30 Folsom points of jasper, chert and chalcedony, there was a scattered armamentarium of scrapers, knives, drills, engraving implements, hammers. Extending over a half-mile, the site was apparently once a lush pasture where Pleistocene animals, following the retreating ice rim, came to feed. That the hunters were...
...chisel similar to the one which was found with the ladder. A chisel of the same size was used to mortise the rungs into the uprights. Furthermore, the chisel was of the same make as another of Hauptmann's chisels, and filled the one vacancy in his tool chest...
...quite succeed in bringing him down to solid earth, at least caused him to desert the seraphim and the kingdom of talking brutes. His first real commercial success, One More Spring, followed the fortunes of a group of indigent outcasts who sought shelter in a street cleaner's tool shed in Central Park. Still in the realm of fantasy, this rueful little fable cut close enough to the essence of lean-year reality to please those who detest animals that behave like humans...