Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...zombies'' (animated dead men). The picture fervently believes in them. Dazed Madge Bellamy has come to Haiti to marry slack-jawed John Harron. Robert Frazer. her secret admirer, invites the two young people to his house to be married. To prevent the marriage he goes to a zombie tycoon. Bela Lugosi. who looks like a comic imbecile, can make his jawbones rigid and show-the whites of his eyes. These abilities qualify him to make strong men cower and women swoon. Bela's zombie factory is going full-blast. Corpses carry baskets, grind the mill, do the upstairs work. Bela...
...likes caviar at least once a day, has a fondness for oysters, small pickled onions and other things he knows are not good for him. He is frank and forward, likes to work as hard as he lives. His ebullience and flair for speechmaking have made more than one tycoon call him "Canada's Charlie Schwab." It would be as hard to believe that he had not taken all he could get out of a job as it would be to believe he did not throw himself into it with his full force. In fact, there were those who felt...
...leader, asked that she be presented. Through Miss Keller's companion, who tapped the message into her palm, Her Majesty said: "I am so glad you were able to come to our party. . . ." In the August Atlantic Monthly Author Keller poked fun at Big Business by picturing a tycoon in complete charge of his household. The tycoon begins by baking ten cakes at once rather than let oven-heat go to waste, then coaxes his children to eat more than is good for them so the cake will not be wasted. All kitchen appliances, freezing devices, mechanical cleaners...
...naval officer who is curt and frosty; a bouncing, beaming Lancashireman named Ramsbottom; a U. S. girl of the type who "lets one down." He is bothered by a mysterious South American named Garsuvin, by a chorus of wiggling Tahitian girls, by a Hollywood cinema producer, by a London tycoon who takes William Dursley on a tour of speakeasies and to a bicycle race. William Dursley falls in love twice: first with the U. S. girl who presently runs off with a cinema troupe in Tahiti, then with an English widow who nurses him out of a fever caught while...
...respect in which mystery fiction resembles reality most closely is the fact that the culprits are not often punished. In The Ebony Bed Murder, however, the chief investigator is an eccentric advertising tycoon who does better than the whole Manhattan police force did in the some what similar case of Vivian Gordon. At least Griffin Scott finds out who killed Helen Brill Kent. He makes no proverbs and is therefore able to do it in fewer pages than it might have taken Charlie Chan. The Ebony Bed Murder is the July issue of the Mystery League...