Word: tugboat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Florida real estate. When she was 60, almost penniless, she scored an overnight hit as "Marthy" in Anna Christie, stealing the show from Greta Garbo. A first-rate star for the second time in her life, she was voted the nation's most popular cinemactress, scored other hits in Tugboat Annie, Min and Bill, Dinner at Eight...
...when the ice was so thick that relatively few whaling expeditions bucked the pack, he found no less than 32 vessels at work. The Ross Sea whaling fleet is composed of big factory ships, each mothering a flock of chasers, each about the size of a small tugboat. The chasers scour the frigid waters until they spy a spouting whale, sneak up on it and let fly a harpoon bomb from a cannon. After the dead whale is pulled to the surface, it is inflated with air pumps, towed to the factory ship...
...officials of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N. J., whither the Einsteins were bound. When the Westernland entered New York Harbor it was met by a tugboat chartered by two of the Institute's trustees, Lawyer Herbert Maass and Edgar S. Bamberger, retired vice president of the famed Newark department store. With them they had a customs inspector, to get the Einsteins quietly off the ship. They had forgotten to bring an immigration officer. While they waited, news cameramen managed to snap the Einsteins-the Herr Doktor, bewildered, trying to shield himself by waving his violin case...
...becomes necessary, in order to thwart a rival ferryboat operator, for Fields, Skipworth, Wells and gurgling LeRoy to win a race in the Keystone in the course of which LeRoy falls overboard in a washtub and Fields stokes the boilers with boxes of roman candles. Part parody of Tugboat Annie, part pure farce, Tillie and Gus is one of the pleasanter chapters in the long and happy career of W. C. Fields's famed unlighted cigar. Baby LeRoy, now 19 months old, has taken up walking since his first picture, A Bedtime Story, but remains incapable of speech...
Satevepost stories, nor because of Mervyn LeRoy's competent direction. It is entirely because of the presence in its cast of an old lady whose preposterous career makes the happy ending in Tugboat Annie seem comparatively realistic and whose flamboyant character makes the people she impersonates seem pallid reflections of herself. Seven years ago Marie Dressier was an impoverished "bit part" actress, nervously consulting astrologers as to the advisability of opening a Paris hotel in the hope that friends who remembered when she was a famed stage comedienne might patronize it enough to keep her comfortable...