Word: turp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lindsay, he turned out a play, A Slight Case of Murder. A score of his stories (Little Miss Marker, etc.) became movies; a few, like The Big Street (1942) he produced himself. Hearst christened The Brighter Side, the daily column where Runyon's endearing ignoramuses, Joe and Ethel Turp, were born...
...also, worried last week over a rival coop, Gum Turpentine Farmers Cooperative Association, formed last year at Vidalia, Ga., by small Georgia producers, to buck the influence of factors in the A. T. F. A. Headed by mild, sandy-haired William Capers Rice, 38, mayor of Vidalia, Gum Turp. last year won an estimated $1,000,000 reduction in factorage interest rates and handling charges. It aims now to get rid of small stills dependent on factors, pool output in a central still system...
...Ethel Turp Call on the President (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This appealing little picture, which aims to affirm the democratic dogma, implies some things its creators never intended. One of them is that to call on the President is one of the last things a U. S. Turp ever would or should think of doing...
William Gargan talks and looks Joe Turp, makes the film an authentic piece of Brooklyn regionalism. Ann Sothern rattles Ethel Turp's tongue and one little brain cell in Joan Blondell style. Walter Brennan somehow manages to be touching instead of foolish, as the lifelong bachelor devoted to the woman who married the other fellow...