Word: bents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What more sacrifices are there for me to make to save the companies from the destruction and dismemberment of receivership into which their powerful enemies are bent upon plunging them?" Cineman William Fox asked this question last week-another appeal to his stockholders, perhaps the last before they gather on March 5 to decide the fate of Fox Films & Fox Theatres. Desperate as the Fox appeal sounded, Cineman Fox must have gained at least some slight assurance last week from the thought that his famed and feared Lawyer Samuel Untermyer was bending his gaze on the Fox dilemma. Lawyer Untermyer...
...other men running Russian political affairs Mr. Karpovich replied. "Magnify a United States political boss to national importance, and make him a Communist and you have Stalin, the successor to Lenin, who started the present policy of government. The Central Committee in charge is a party of professional politicians, bent on socialistic ideas, and who have been in Russia all the time as members of an official class--they have just lately had the opportunity to get into political importance...
...several days, the best minds of Ihlamour bent to the task of extracting Yusuf's duck. Scheme A was to lower a large shallow bucket down the well in the hope that the duck would swim into it. Several times the duck did so, but always flopped out before the bucket could be hauled to the surface. Scheme B was to tie fish lines to hard indigestible crusts of bread in the hope that Yusuf's duck would swallow line and crust, allow himself to be hauled to the surface. Yusuf's duck did not. Scheme...
...picked a worse time. He joined his unit, an artillery brigade in Cough's Fifth Army, in the spring of 1918, four hours before Ludendorff launched his spring offensive. The first barrage shattered Chaplain Warne's nerve. For the next three weeks of nightmare, as the lines bent daily backward but never quite broke, he was in an increasing agony of bewildered fear and uselessness. Said one of the mess: "This parson of ours came out, I should say, thinking he was going to preach a Jihad.* All parsons do, to a certain extent. And what happens-some...
...Larry's," and no trouble is taken to keep the Holland House Hotel from looking like the Park Central. It is an exciting and fairly credible melodrama distinguished by Powell's fine performance. Best shot: Gambler Powell coming out of the hotel where he has been shot, bent over, staggering, with his hand pressed to his groin, while the hotel employes laugh at him as just another drunk...