Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crushing superiority of means," 2) control of distribution, 3) a threat to enter the theatre field (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's plan for a circuit of its own in Italy). Italy permits Hollywood to take home $1,000,000 profit annually. Since this represents a return of one twentieth of one percent on a two billion dollar investment, Hollywood was concerned, but mildly...
Second Honeymoon (Twentieth Century-Fox). Tyrone Power and Loretta Young in an arch new episode whose chief asset is merry-eyed, brunette newcomer Marjorie Weaver. Old stuff: Tyrone in the lockup...
Rapidly the Vagabond became ruffled and confused and irritable. Many months past, beneath the light of a summer moon, he had persuaded a West Virginia lass to accompany him to the sport event of the autumn. Then November twentieth did not seem more than a week away. But that was then. Now, the thoughts in his mind assembled in one spiritual ball reverberating with excited words: he would be obliged to take one girl and two relatives to a game which he wished fervently he could watch alone. Contemplating a sudden change of name, or flight, or amuesia anything...
...next four years, the two teams divided. It was becoming, if possible, more fun to go to the football games than it had been before. The Twentieth Amendment had been passed, and the girls proved it by snipping two inches off the hems of their dresses every year...
Danger-Love at Work (Twentieth Century-Fox). Junior Pemberton (Bennie Bartlett) had at ten the condescension of a fellow who was ready to enter Harvard. Uncle Alan (Walter Catlett) collected stamps. Brother Herbert (John Carradine) called himself a postsurrealist; he painted sublimations in bathrooms, on bay windows, hired a man to douse him with water when working on a marine subject. Mother Pemberton (Mary Boland) was notable for an insane kind of poise which she maintained even when the cook got drunk and had to be locked in the mop closet, or the downstairs maid tried to touch the family...