Word: belts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British newsorgans about the strength of the new ships compared with the Nelson and the Rodney, most modern British battleships. The Prince of Wales and King George V are of an improved Nelson class, carry ten 14-inch and 16 5¼-inch guns, with a 14-inch armor belt and a 6¾-inch deck for protection against bombs and plunging fire. The Nelson and Rodney carry nine 16-inch guns, are the only ships in the Royal Navy carrying guns that size. But since 14-inch guns have been improved, power of fire of the new ships...
...worried columns." Frank R. Kent "delights in cruel jibes and acidulous comment that he will direct at a straw man." Boake Carter "could enter any intellectual goldfish swallowing contest." Arthur Krock "sometimes permits himself, without abating a whit of his stately authoritativeness, to 'hit too closely to the belt." Heywood Broun "is a genial philosopher who declines to take himself too seriously." Raymond Clapper "is one of the fairest, most objective and most intelligent of them all. . . . By the way, whatever became of Henry L. Mencken...
...Wheat-Belt Messiah...
...edited by no one but himself. In addition to credit for producing and directing Love Affair, McCarey gets credit, with Mildred Cram, for the original story. As close to a one-man show as any $850,000 picture can be, Love Affair is pleasantly free from the assembly-belt characteristics that mar many . Hollywood products. It also exhibits the need for the merciless editing that few directors are masochistic enough to give their own work...
Herbert Driscoll and Thomas Wheelan apprehended Mims Whose hands were bound by his coat belt. They prevented his leap and called the Cambridge police who took the instructor to the Longwood Street psychopathic wards...