Word: beene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The picture's best gag is wordless. MacMurray has been Bali-hooeying Madeleine Carroll about his home life with five native maidens. One of them, he brags, sweeps for him, one sews, one cooks, one dances. . . . Carroll: "But that's only four!" MacMurray: arch silence, a coy smile...
Ever since World War I, the tales of fighting pilots' half-drunkenness in action have been proverbial. In April 1918, Captain A. Roy Brown shot down famed German Ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen. Said he, later describing his victory: "Milk and brandy were my only food [for two weeks...
Last fortnight the Lancet confidently asserted that British nerves were now strong enough and British planes good enough to make drink unnecessary. "During the war of 1914-1918," said the editor, "heavy drinking became almost a convention among flying men, and this convention lingered afterwards. It had arisen at a...
That might have been written by Ernest Hemingway in 1936, sitting in the Hotel Florida in Madrid while Franco's planes droned above the city. Or it could have been written by Floyd Gibbons in Shanghai the day the Palace Hotel had its front blown off, in 1937. Actually...
> In the steel industry with a supposed capacity of 72,000,000 tons of ingots a year, it was estimated that four months will be needed to raise capacity to 85%, a full year to refit obsolete mills and reach 100%. Efficient high-speed producers, like Chicago's Inland...