Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drifting fog comes the distraught figure of the sister-in-law. Next day in the London domicile there is the Chatterton scene, in which her ladyship sacrifices her reputation to save her brother from mortification and despair. We are left with a fleeting glimpse of Mr. Lukas at the wheel of a powerful car, on the way to the English equivalent of a justice of the peace. He would probably make Miss Chatterton a very good husband, but we sincerely trust he lets her do the driving...
Like Marion Davies and Bebe Daniels. Gloria Swanson is one of those seasoned cinema wheel-horses who, though they pass through periods of taking themselves seriously, still do their best work in comedies. Gloria Swanson got her start in a striped, form fitting bathing suit in the old Mack Sennett pie & water works. Once Chaplin refused to allow her a bit in His New Job because she was too solemn. Her sense of humor has now developed to the point of sending bundles of old newspapers to the staterooms of friends sailing for Europe with the greeting: "Just something...
Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, wheel-horses of Manhattan's Theatre Guild, Helen Hayes, pudgy emotional actress, Bert Lahr, loud-voiced comic, and Jimmy Durante, long-nosed, button-eyed master of ceremonies who makes up his own gags, will work for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Lunt & Fontanne's first picture will probably be Private Lives...
...Pilot Bernt Balchen were largely-if not solely-responsible for the right-side-up landing of the plane near Ver-Sur-Mer in France and the escape of the crew. Here he italicizes a sentence from Byrd's own book Skyward: "Balchen happened to be at the wheel...
Queen Marie of Jugoslavia bundled her three young sons into an automobile, took the wheel and went spinning down Prince Michael Street in Belgrade. Out from a sidestreet raced another car, whacked resoundingly into the royal one. BANG! went all the royal tires...