Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal expense. An experimental camp was being built at Bear Mountain Park. New York, overlooking the Hudson. Thither this week were to go 25 unmarried, ablebodied, unemployed, penniless women between the ages of 18 and 30. Federal emergency relief funds were to pay $5 board each week for each woman wood-ster. They will not draw pay but will have counselors to teach them useful occupations. "There will be plenty of work," said Secretary Perkins, "keeping the camp." On the first day for registration in Manhattan, applications far exceeded accommodations at the Bear Mountain camp...
...nine years Andre Spada worked to make banditry a beautiful thing in Corsica. In 1922 he shot two policemen in the back, killed one. When a youth ran away with Spada's mistress, he murdered the boy's uncle and a woman cousin. Total murders: about twelve. Travelers on the road between Ajaccio and Sopigna paid him tribute as a matter of course. In 1931 when Depression-hit Corsicans asked for a reduced tribute, he ended the quibble by ducally closing the road for two months. Other income: extortion, blackmail. To this local boy who had made good...
Barbara Stanwyck's contribution to the show is of the sort which used to delight backwoods cinema audiences. She re-enacts bits from two of her old pictures, Ladies of Leisure and The Miracle Woman. There are two talented dancers, Beuvell & Tova, and one song which most radio listeners have already heard and admired, "I'll Take An Option...
...Senator from Louisiana; by Anne Ector Pleasant, wife of Louisiana's one-time Governor Ruffin G. Pleasant; for $250,000. Charges: that he defamed her character by arresting her without cause after ordering her out of the State House 1932, that he called her "a drunken, cursing woman." Chirped the Kingfish: ''That means that up to date I have been sued...
...have not had to swallow a few times already you probably will during the final scene in which father and son get acquainted for the first time over an inn table, find that they have a great deal in common, both loathing the same woman...