Word: yards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scotland Yard detectives favored the second version. The housekeeper recalled that Teacher Eaton had returned late, quarreled with a man in front of the apartment before entering. In the room were many clues. The detectives took fingerprints, found that the assailant had changed from his own blood-spattered clothes to Mr. Eaton's, had left behind a razor and a block of wood. Although $4,000 had been stolen Scotland Yard did not think robbery was the sole motive. It was announced that two men were being trailed for "causing grievous bodily injuries." One J. Moore, 22, surrendered himself...
...them is the father of Lily Damita's child. Director Raoul Walsh, who himself acts the part of a Marine captain, gets music in by having the Marines play mouth organs, listen to instrumental concerts, and march, when possible, to bands. Best shots: disembarkation in the Brooklyn Navy Yard...
...truck hurts Davy Lee and the wandering story that is a framework for his sob is washed out again with a flood of tears. Jolson sings well, although without burnt cork, which he really needs, such ditties as "Little Pal" and an old one, "Back in Your Own Back Yard." The rest of the numbers will need a lot of plugging to make you remember them. Best shot: Marion Nixon telling Jolson what the manager proposed to her. Silliest shot: a doctor refusing to operate on Little Pal unless Miss Nixon raises $5,000. Silliest song-line (to the convicts...
...third company was called the Ford Motor Co. The bicycle makers John and Horace Dodge made parts. James Couzens came from the traffic department of a coal yard for $2,500 a year. They paid $75 a month rent for a building; $250 to the Dodges for the working parts; $46 for four tires; $26 for four wheels; $52 for a body; $16 apiece for cushions; and $1.50 a day for workmen (ten or twelve). The car cost $554 complete and $594 with a tonneau and sold for $750 and $850. Ford himself got $3,000 a year, but Frederick...
...grey baggy suit, a flannel shirt, a soft cap, carried a small paper package. His face was set in hard, unhappy lines. He spoke to no one, as he climbed into a Ford sedan, cringed down in its back seat. The car carried him out of the prison yard for the first time in 43 years...