Word: goldberg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ingenuity would have beamed forth over a nightmarish mechanical design-the canary cries, watering the sensitive plant, which blushes, warming the matchhead, which ignites, inspiring the cat to commit suicide. In this case a high-grade bellboy might have been able to name the handsome patron: Cartoonist Rube Goldberg. The desk clerk could probably have named Mr. Goldberg's companions: Cartoonists Clare Briggs and Bud Fisher. . . . The first formal and annual dinner of the Cartoonists of America was a large event in a circle where events are not numerous...
...merely in the arm or leg for legitimate profit. Eugene Fenmore (James Rennie), head of a high-principled gang plans his "jobs" in evening clothes, with the nicety of the inspired artist. While police are decoyed to the scene of a set-up brawl next door, his men rifle Goldberg's jewelry store in full sight of a pop-eyed audience. All would have been decent, had not Rocky Morse (Chester Morris), first assistant safecracker, proved disobedient and plugged the doubly unfortunate Goldberg in the forbidden parts. For this treacherous, unwarranted homicide, Director-General Fenmore plugs Rocky. Two young...
...Rube" Goldberg, famed cartoonist: "At the invitation of a New York newspaper (the Post), I went with a common reporter to visit a 'needy case.' We visited a one-time housepainter, paralyzed by paint (lead) fumes, and his wife, who was fighting to keep him from being sent to a poorhouse. In their kitchen all I could find was a loaf of bread, a small sack of flour, two bottles, one of medicine, one of sleeping fluid. Said I: 'I feel sort of rotten, riding away from here in my Minerva. After leaving them, you know...
Eugene ("Zim") Zimmerman, Pres. ; "Bud" Fisher, 1st V. P.; "Rube" Goldberg, 2nd V. P.; Edward McCullaugh, 3rd V. P. New York...
FRIDAY, JUNE 4 (VI) Botany 6aNew Lect. Hall Engin. Sciences 7b Pierce 307 French 3 Memorial Hall French 25 New Lect. Hall History 10b New Lect. Hall Psychology 26 Psychopathic Hosp. 2 O'clock (XV) Chemistry 22 Emerson A, F Allen-Goldberg Emerson A Gollub-Wright Emerson F History 41 Emerson J Italian 1 Emerson J Social Ethics 30 Emerson J SATURDAY, JUNE 5 (XIII) Astronomy 2b Astron. Lab. Botany 5a Botan. Mus. 28 Chemistry 8 Allen--Holland Sever 17 Howard--Rubenstein Sever 18 Schneider--Wyer Sever 20 Chemistry 33 Ahern Dorr Sever 8 Dubiel--Zannacki Sever 11 Class. Philol...