Word: ace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...engine of Disarmament began chugging again. The world learned more about Hitler's telegram from Mussolini. Whether or not it contained advice on the Hitler speech, it did contain a request for an important conference. Into an airplane climbed Prussian Premier Hermann Wilhelm Göring, a War ace grown beefy, to roar over the Alps to Italy for the second time. He was a far milder Göring than the one who flew to Rome and back last month. In Rome the official banner of the Fascist party flapped from the central balcony of Benito Mussolini...
...propellers with which the talkies so constantly belie their name. In this picture routine shots and noises of planes taking off, landing, crashing, planes upside down, on their noses, in hangars or at war with each other serve almost to obliterate an interesting character study of a War ace who shoots himself because he despises the business of killing human beings whom he has no reason to hate. When he gets a chance, Fredric March-a conscientious, intelligent rather than a brilliant actor-makes the growing emotional pressure of a man who finds himself in a quandary which...
...Washington Daily News, $500 for his cartoon entitled "The Light of Asia." It showed a brawny fist, labeled Japan, clutching a crumpled sheaf of papers which blazed like a torch. It was marked: "Nine Power Treaty- Kellogg Pact." Cartoonist Talburt, one-time Toledo soda-jerker, is a Scripps-Howard ace. Oldtime Editor Negley D. Cochran who developed him says: "Some of us write editorials and are called editors; Talburt draws editorials and is called a cartoonist." The 1932 Pulitzer Prize for books on U. S. themes...
...attempt to fight back to the lead position in the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League, the Varsity nine will face the ace of the Pennsylvania team, John Jackson, for the second time this year in the final game of a two game series on Soldiers Field tomorrow afternoon at 3.45 o'clock. The hour has been changed so that spectators may see both the Princeton track meet which begins at 2 o'clock and the ball game...
...from the Bruins and losing but three. The invaders are as follows: Henshaw, 3b.; Munroe, r.f.; Kroeger, c.f.; captain; Tracy, l.f., a former Boston Latin School captain whi will attract a crowd of fans from Greater Boston; Caito, 2b.; Gilmartin, 1b.; Burt, s.s.; Fowler, c. Coach Jack Kelleher's ace, Bert Hamphries is expected to pitch...