Word: abandoned
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...justice in a situation paralleling the Sacco-Vanzetti case, Winterset starts with a quick outline of a 1920 payroll robbery. Three gangsters - Trock Estrella (Eduardo Ciannelli), Shadow (Stanley Ridges), and Garth Esdras (Paul Guilfoyle) - steal a car that belongs to Bartolomeo Romagna. After they have murdered the paymaster, they abandon the car. Romagna, partly because he is a radical, is convicted of the crime. His small son is standing on the hill above the prison the night he dies in the electric chair. Obsessed by the desire to clear his father's name, Mio Romagna (Burgess Meredith) gets...
...grim and intense proletarian defender of Madrid, Premier Largo Caballero, and his Cabinet climbed into automobiles, drove rapidly away to Valencia on the seacoast 24 hours after he had declared, like a Chinese general: "Under no circumstances will I abandon Madrid alive! If the insurgents break through, I will shoot myself...
...flight. If the Whites were able to catch and imprison its members, they argued, then foreign powers would have no choice but to recognize Generalissimo Franco as actual head of the Spanish State. Only this consideration, the journals exclaimed, could overcome the Cabinet's reluctance to abandon the capital, move to safety...
...scoring threat in his Sophomore year. White has been running back punts and kickoffs with his old abandon while Sandy's placekicking and passing have been up to his 1934-35 standard...
...appearances an unremarkable one. On that day Horace Mann, a lawyer just past 41 who had done an honest but unexciting turn in Massachusetts politics, resigned the presidency of the Massachusetts Senate to become Secretary of the Common wealth's first Board of Education. That Mann should abandon a profitable law practice for a newly created job paying $1,500 a year surprised his acquaintances. Lanky, jut-jawed Lawyer Mann, however, was known to be a man of individual and tenacious opinions. He believed in phrenology. He despised smoking, drinking, ballet dancing. He was proud of being a self...