Word: plugging
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...Producer Goldwyn, who had discovered Actor Cooper over a decade before (The Winning of Barbara Worth), lured him back from Paramount to play Marco, Paramount helpfully hollered bloody murder, sued unsuccessfully for $5,000,000. When the astronomical Paramount suit sputtered out, the Goldwyn staff tried one more impertinent plug. They wired Egypt's Washington minister for "rates and conditions" for posting their bills on the Pyramids...
...Slight Case of Murder (Warner Bros.) is the riotous cinemaversion of the Damon Runyon-Howard Lindsay play about four uninvited, neatly plugged corpses in the Saratoga mansion of a Broadway beer baron (TIME, Sept. 23, 1935). With cinema's No. 1 Hoodlum Edward G. Robinson as the beer baron. Warners people the play with a cast of stylized plug-uglies who are authentic Runyon to the very toothpick. Best scene: Baron Robinson and associates deciding whose lawns to decorate with the corpses, making crestfallen Henchman Allen Jenkins stay home and miss...
...within German boundaries, the rare and fearless publishers of anti-Nazi sheets are soon traced, not often heard from again. Cleverest ruse to defeat the omnipresent police has been to plug the rear end of a van with furniture, set up a print shop between that tier and the driver's seat, travel brazenly from, town to town turning out anti-Nazi propaganda. One such traveling paper, The Wanderer, was discovered last summer when it stuck in the mud, summoned another truck for succor...
...Germany, where Diesels light enough to power the Hindenburg were developed. Last week, however, famed Engineer Charles F. ("Boss") Kettering, who has long experimented with Diesels on his yacht, revealed that he too has found success. In Detroit, General Motors Corp., of which Boss Kettering is the inventive spark plug, opened the first factory in the U. S. for the mass production of light Diesel engines...
...quotation was taken from Henry George's Standard, which varied somewhat from the ordinary press versions. There was nothing derogatory to the dignity of any man, even the Pope of Rome, in appearing 50 years ago in a high silk hat, vulgarly called a "stovepipe" or a "plug." It was the universally accepted insignia of respectability and gentlemanliness. And as to his "walking down Broadway" in it, that had no more connotation of an American Pope than his walking down Piccadilly, the Rue de la Paix or Unter den Linden would have connoted an English, French or German Pope...