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...rise from head of a timber crew in the north woods to the partnership he has set his heart on, Barney Glasgow has to do more than spur his gang on to a record cutting. He has to marry the boss's unappealing daughter. For this high hurdle in ambition's path he gets up courage by a brief affair with a dance-hall hostess (Frances Farmer), not the least of whose charms is a convenient knack of converting beer trays into lethal missiles in a barroom brawl. When Glasgow goes off to marry his heiress, the eccentric...
...kiss champion'' after she had spent more than nine hours kissing three young actors to test their ability to play the role of her fiancé in the film. Winner was tall, tennis-playing Francis Xavier Shields. In the course of the picture, he and Actress Leeds (Barney's daughter) kiss neither each other nor anyone else...
Married. Charles Saxon Farley Smith, son of South Carolina's Senator Ellison DuRant Smith; and Laura M. Douglas, of Washington; by Rev. Zë Barney Thorne Phillips, Chaplain of the Senate; in Washington...
Biggest single GOP contributor was William Randolph Hearst-$30,000. Next biggest, $25,000 each, were Republican Treasurer Charles Barnett ("Barney") Goodspeed, Colonel Robert Guggenheim (copper), Frazier Jelke (oleomargarine), John A. Roebling (wire...
...that," said the conservative economist. "Our plan makes for slow action, probably for hesitation if you please, for caution and with resultant failure to secure that degree of appreciation, that quick action which might be very well expected if an investment trust were conducted, let us say, by Mr. Barney Baruch...