Word: stickful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parrot to say "O.K.," his dog to be civil to a monkey that vaguely resembles Fairbanks. Soon afterward he has dug traps, caught a goat, made the he-goat run a treadmill to churn the she-goat's milk, trained a turtle to follow food dangled by a stick in a circle, thereby lifting water from a well to run down a chute, over a fire and out of a faucet marked "Hot." He lives in a "penthouse," an impressive four-room house on a platform that must have taken the United Artists carpenter crew months to make...
...Sadie Thompson to Man. Director Lewis Milestone has made semi-respectable, unexciting, the old sure-fire melodrama. Of the hot Pacific island where the rain monotonously rains and the characters get crescendo jitters, Milestone gets no illusion. The characters are not damp to the skin. Their clothes do not stick clammily to their flanks. The food does not spoil. Green mold does not sprout on everything. The heat is not heat at all. Faces are unsweated. Appetites are healthv. The weather does not. as in the play, exhaust the characters of energy, ravel out their nerves. Sadie Thompson (Joan Crawford...
Companion of the gardenia boutonniere, the $100 ringside seat, the Charvet cravat, Corona Coronas is the mellow smoke of plutocracy, the incense stick of happy days. Best known of U. S. quality cigars, it used to sell for 60?. Last week Corona Coronas, sympathetically following most of its consumers into retrenchment, was offered at three...
...cleaned off the streets the department allowed them generous time off for rehearsal. But last week they too were hit by the economy drive of energetic young Joseph ("Holy Joe'') McKee, the city's new Mayor (TIME, Sept. 19). Hereafter sanitation department men must stick to sanitation, tootling must not interfere with street-sweeping, garbage-collecting...
...sent. We have used semaphores placed back of the player receiving the ball, the other fellow would follow the signals. . . . I do not allow more than 13 errors for any one set. . . . At Tulane we advocate and play basketball, we hit ten-nis balls with a golf stick from a cocoa mat on the tennis courts, we have the boxing instructor come down to the courts with boxing gloves and show the boys how to foot. We have the head football coach . . . we get the band out . . . we dance, keep moving and make every one of our varsity players work...