Word: goed
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Stiglin took me out in the hall. He said, 'You fool, why didn't you admit it right away?' I said, 'Well, I don't want to get in bad.' He said, 'Well, never mind. We have got a clear case. Just go ahead and make the admission in front of the girl.' " Another hold-up game practiced by members of the New York Police Department: arresting men on charges of "annoying women in the subway"; hustling them to jail; introducing them to certain bondsmen and "lawyers" who, for fat cash fees...
...Colman buying a wirehaired fox terrier; arguing with his father, the irascible Lord Leeland (Father: "Now you're blaming me for bringing you into the world." Son: "I should be mortified for your sake if I had to blame anyone else.") ; taking Loretta Young on a merry-go-round; accepting the ?5,000 his fiancee hands him in the nasty belief that he loved her for her money. Colman is the prodigal younger son of a noble family. He comes home, attracts to himself a girl who was supposed to marry a Russian grand duke, and after difficulties weds...
...Sawyer (Paramount). The Tom Sawyer of the printed page remains more real than any figure of flesh & blood concocted in his image, and for this reason there are people who will cavil at Paramount's cinema of him, or go with misgivings into a theatre to see him played, afraid that lies will be told about someone they know. Yet no lies are told in this picture. You can accept Jackie Coogan, you can accept the treatment which does all for the story that any cinema could do in the limits of program time-present its surface, the long...
...Baer ludicrously thrash the air. After ten rounds of awkward and exciting mauling. the judges decided that Schaaf had the edge. Baer, though the loser, fought so willingly that he may be given other and better chances to show what he can do. Enthusiasts called it "the best heavyweight go in New York this year...
...languages like a native, and everywhere he went people would drop whatever they were doing to engage him in extended and animated chats. Such was the charm of his tongue or his appearance that a chambermaid in a hotel, a respectable woman with a son, left her job to go walking with him. Other occasional companions were a gypsy fiddler, a bishop, a mayor. Once a beautiful peasant woman fell in love with him for a night, begged him to help her revenge herself on her absent and unfaithful husband. Baerlein was a perfect gentleman. Philosophical, he took everything...