Word: diggers
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Magnetic pole of the gold digger's globe is 5° 30'N, 87°W: a Pacific isle named Cocos, rainy and "snagged, like an old pirate's teeth." There in the last 80 years have gone hundreds of adventurers to ruin their lives, lose their own fortunes in search for three pirate hoards (worth perhaps $60,000,000) which legend has buried about its shores. Biggest find to date: one rusty pistol. So littered with gold diggers' picks & shovels is Cocos Island that it looks "like an abandoned WPA project." A frequent visitor: Franklin...
...Universal) is the old wheeze about the rich young boss (brusque Brian Aherne) and his dreamy young secretary (Rosalind Russell). This time the boss marries the secretary early to save his cement business, frowns and whines through a kissless marriage, shuffles around town in game pursuit of a gold digger (Virginia Bruce) with a personality as hard as his best cement. Some witty, well-timed dialogue plus the articulate gestures and grimaces of paunchy Funnyman Robert Benchley, who gives his first cinema demonstration of his finesse with the mandolin, keep the film from becoming an also...
...every day, as long as I live, I am just going to keep on figureing that if it is against the law to advertise for a partner to dig a well, I sure am going to keep my own ideas. I am just a well digger, not a lawyer, but I sure figure that if it is against the law to advertise in a public newspaper half interest in an oil producing property, it sure as hell is also against the law to advertise half interest in a Greek restaurant. That sure would be tough on the Greeks, just like...
...digger that got spanked...
...inspiring," exclaims Gold Digger Douglas Fairbanks Jr. when they first sight an Inca ruin, "like the great ruins at Ankor." Undeniably awe-inspiring, the ruins look more like the trylon at the New York World's Fair with the top knocked off. Soon the diggers are blowing the ruins to bits. They have the hidden treasures neatly crated in their jungle hideaway by the time Joan Bennett arrives in quest of her explorer husband...