Word: armored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Texan Major Frederic A. Lord. He had been given last week a ship with the very latest Hispano-Suiza "moteur canon," swankest instrument of Death. This engine has a hollow propeller shaft and through it fires an oversize machine gun or undersized field piece discharging explosive, tracer, incendiary or armor-piercing shells...
...hereditary duties of the King's Champion are to "gird himself in complete armor," ride out upon a noble charger, fling down his gauntlet, offer to fight all "liars and traitors" who asperse King Edward. With becoming English modesty and shyness, Frank Seaman Dymoke, presenting once more the 14th Century claim of his family to serve as the King's Champion, offered and requested merely to be allowed to carry the Royal Standard of England, because for the last 115 years the Dymokes have not as King's Champions girt themselves in complete armor or challenged...
...London, where she is currently making Knight Without Armor for Alexander Korda, she last month went to the premiere of Romeo and Juliet with Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Police were called in to quiet the mob. as they had been at two previous openings she attended. Film technicians speak of her knowledge of photography. On the set, she is good-humored, assiduous. In Knight Without Armor occurs a bathtub scene. While it was being made one day (in England), she slipped, sprawled, spread-eagled naked before the camera crew. Everyone was flustered except Dietrich. She laughed, picked herself up, popped back...
There are many vulnerable points in the New Deal armor, but upon their discovery alone no election will hinge. Criticism must be welded into a coherent whole, of which an ideology of liberal progress is a definite part. Thus sections of the S. E. C. Act should be rendered more intelligible, but not discarded in toto. The principle of collective bargaining must receive fuller recognition and better mediation machinery found for industrial disputes. The social security program, and particularly the fiscal stewardship of the government, must be revamped. In these things, as in relief and public works, definite, workable plans...
Directed by Jacques Feyder, who will make Marlene Dietrich's forthcoming Knight Without: Armor for Alexander Korda,La Kermesse Héroïque explodes the theory that Rene Clair has a monopoly on urbane comedy in the French cinema. It is as sly a farce as any that has ever led a U. S. censor board to mistake good manners for innocent intentions. Produced at a cost of $850,000-fabulous for a French cinema-and magnificently set by Lazare Meerson, it was distinguished abroad by winning the grand Prix du Cinema Français, being banned...