Word: washer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seventh Heaven (Twentieth Century-Fox). When Chico (James Stewart), Paris sewer rat whose ambition was to be a street-washer, rescued Diane (Simone Simon) from her sister, who was beating her with a strap, he wondered why he did it. His emotions became even more puzzling when, after he had agreed to give Diane temporary shelter in his garret, he found that he did not want to let her go. Not until he saw Diane in a wedding dress he had bought her, did it finally dawn on him that he was in love. That...
Francis Lederer, romantic matinee idol of women from Radcliffe to Paris, Manhattan to Vienna, has not always been such. Once a floor-washer in Prague for $1.20 a week, he, today, has a tremendous interest in promoting world peace and preventing wars. To advance the idea, he has founded, and is supporting, a World Peace Federation...
...paradise." Automobile plants are clean, well-ventilated, scientifically lighted and entirely lacking in the sound & fury of, say, a steel mill. The speed of assembly and subassembly lines is not that pictured by Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times. Chief complaint is not the monotony of putting a washer on a bolt or a tire on a wheel eight hours on end but a peculiar nervousness which comes from having to do it within a limited time, even if that time is liberal. It has to be done. If it is not, the entire plant may be slowed down...
...cooking and refrigerating machinery, unreplaced since Stillman was built in 1902, have been supplanted by the most modern of automatic devices as far as possible. A new system of sterilizing all cooking utensils and dishes with live steam, at the same time that the automatic washer is working on them, has been installed. No other hospital in Boston or the environs has a system for quickly sterilizing, as a routine matter, all the dishes used, reports Dr, Bock...
...bell ringer in the Tyrolean town of Zanebruck. Christopher's wife dies, his younger son is deaf & dumb, his elder son gets killed in a plane crash, Zanebruck is wiped out by a war bombardment and, by 1935, poor old Chris is no more than a Manhattan bottle-washer. His deaf son, cured by the roar of guns, then turns out to be a great composer, recognizable to his sire by a symphony, The Cathedral Most lugubrious shot: Chris and a friend (Allen Jenkins) making the jeering louts in a Bowery flophouse kneel down to pray...