Word: 90s
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...officer of the deck on the U. S. S. Bennington one night in the early '90s cruising in the vicinity of Barbados when a school of flying fish flew over the bridge. Just abaft the bridge were two large cowled ventilators leading down into the fireroom. A few minutes later the engineer officer on watch called up through the voice tube that several fish had dropped through a ventilator into the fireroom and the firemen were heating their shovels to cook a late fish supper...
Died. Robert Fulton Cutting, 82, philanthropist, president of the board of trustees of Manhattan's Cooper Union, president of the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Co.; of chronic nephritis; in Manhattan. Manhattan's early '90s knew him as the "first citizen of New York." Reticent, he kept his philanthropies out of the newspapers, was a persistent foe of Tammany Hall...
...matchmaker for younger members of the cast. Presented with dialog patterned after Irvin S. Cobb's quiet Judge Priest stories and permitted but a minimum of head-ducking. Funnyman Rogers is a less hackneyed philosopher than he was in earlier films. Time is the slow Kentucky '90s. Plot is concerned with a judge who is fond of his nephew who is fond of the pretty but poor white trash next door. Not until the courtroom scene discloses that a reticent, no-account town character named Gillis, once convicted of murder, is not only the young girl...
...Francisco. He was a childhood playmate of Louisa May Akott & her sisters, whose antics are described in Little Women. After brief experience as an engineer he started writing, proved more prolific, less talented than his father. His novels (Garth, Archibald Malmaison, Dust, David Poindexter's Disappearance), popular in the '90s, are forgotten today. When he was 67 he was sentenced to a year and a day in a Federal penitentiary for writing the prospectus of a worthless gold mine in which the public lost $3,500,000. He was paroled after a few months...
...Toledo strike, following hard on the heels of mob violence by the produce truckers' strike, in Minneapolis gives evidence that a new phase of the strike situation is rapidly coming into far among labor unions. Violence reminiscent of the Pullman and Steel strikes of the '90s, now bids fair to become the accepted method of protest among labor organizations. For the first time in many months the interventions. For the state militia has been requested by the local authorities, police being unable to cope with the situation. Yet whether or not the strikers are justified in their demands for higher...