Word: chums
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...John Jacob Astor (who in 1937 was with John Roosevelt in Cannes the night there was a rumpus because someone squirted champagne on the Mayor), passed his physical examinations, headed for Fort Dix, N. J. with 191 other volunteers. "Come on, blue blood," yelled another rookie. "Right with you, chum," answered Drayton...
...Porter's transition from virtue to villainy took place in the course of seven weeks. To begin with, he was the kindly chum of Linda Dale, whose husband, a wealthy mill owner, had skipped out on her. Taking Linda to the movies, plying her with goodies, the doctor made such an impression on the young matron that she decided to get an Enoch Arden divorce. Then Husband Eric Dale popped out of nowhere, eager once more for Linda. Upset and unnerved, Linda rejected his advances, proceeded to New York to brood...
...shoe Fritz..." said his chum...
Droll is the boisterous, pratt-fall comedy of Guernsey-bosomed, muskellunge-mouthed Martha Raye; hilarious the portrayals of Concho, the Lone Rider's Indian chum, by flap-eared, long-nosed Bert Gordon (Radio's "Mad Russian"), whose accent is as thick as borsch with sour cream. Filling in for Ruby Keeler, who left the company in Chicago when ex-Husband Jolson's ad-libbing got in her hair, neatly turned Eunice Healey steps with precision through a show-stopping...
...Chairwoman of the 21-man House Labor Committee, buxom Mrs. Norton snapped that it would have been "much more honest" of the Smith committee to propose outright repeal of the Wagner Act. Fearing that Mrs. Norton, in motherly fashion, would simply sit on the bill, Smith's chum, combustious Eugene ("Goober") Cox of Georgia laid plans to force the bill out of Mrs. Norton's committee as soon as possible...