Word: topping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Madison Breed and B. J. Wickfield are drawn on a slightly higher level than the broad, low, and beautiful plain of sex, even though they make frequent excursions downward. The girl-lead, Cindy Lou, while undergoing ordeal by hell-fire and brimstone in the process, eventually lands on the top of the heap in the final scene, showing that Miss Booth may have some surreptitious respect for her and the things she stands...
Married. Elizabeth Jane Kern, 20, photogenic daughter of top-flight Composer Jerome Kern and handsome Richard Alan Green,* 25, Hollywood director, brother of Orchestra Leader Johnny Green; in Manhattan...
...youthful irresponsibility was his big silver-plated tuba, which he played in roundhouse bands, shipped from town to town in friendly cabooses while he rode up ahead in a boxcar with the hoboes. Mark of K. T. Keller's determination to go places was his position at the top of the Mount Joy High School graduating class...
...first two years in his new job K. T. Keller steered Chrysler Corp. through some muddy business roads, but Chrysler's sales hit their top in 1937: $769,807,839. And when Chrysler's report for the first six months of 1939 was published in August, he had some sensational news for U. S. business. After a miserable depression year, Chrysler's sales had jumped to $342,788,293, up a whacking 82% from the first half of 1938. For the rest of this year Chrysler, like the rest of the U. S. motor industry (see below...
...life of a middle-aged man with a middle-aging wife (Edna Best). In Hollywood's current concern with musicians, it plays a thin, modest, molto andante treble to such thumping pictures as They Shall Have Music (Jascha Heifetz), The Star Maker (Walter Dam-rosch). Rare top notes are contributed by Ingrid Bergman, Sweden's leading cinemactress, whose grave good looks, lit by a big-mouthed smile, make her one of the most promising Scandinavian exports since Garbo...