Word: besting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ancestry, the workers were individualists, long trained to stand alone. Fanatically religious (mostly "wash-foot" Baptists), they viewed organized labor as Communism, and Communism, they were told, turned people against God. They had no fear of Negro competition in the mills because they knew that the blackamoor, inefficient at best with machinery, was lulled to sleep by its rhythmic motion (soporific hypnotism). But now they are no longer "poor white trash." They have begun to taste the power of combined action, to strike for what they want...
...from Detroit's second All-American Aircraft Show last week. Several thousand sightseers and several score actual plane purchasers each day could comfortably inspect 104 plane models, exhibited by 44 oldtime and 16 freshly organized manufactories. Planes ranged from the tricky little Heath at $975, which only the best of pilots dare handle, to the $67,500 Fokker, for which, with its ornate fittings* Cadillac's President Lawrence P. Fisher just paid $75,000. In between were sturdy one and two-seater open cockpit monoplanes and biplanes. Most models, however, were "closed jobs," built as coupes, sedans, coaches...
...plenty of students about to break into melody at the faintest hint of a song cue. And there is the sputtery gentleman who provides the comedy. It is all very well done, with a rousing score, and bright contributions by Solly Ward, Gertrude Lang, Bartlett Simmons, Greek Evans. Best song: "Unto Your Heart...
...pick his own job after he kept a trunk from falling on the daughter of a railroad director, he chose to superintend the Lost & Found Department. Saving the Queen of Lisonia's jewels from train robbers, he was told again to pick his job. He became a fireman. Best shot of this smart film- Strong Boy and the lost child...
...urbanity, is rewarded by his wife's decision to stay with him after all, following an episode in which Stone holds the amorous Nils Asther against a tree at the point of his double-barreled tiger-rifle, while a real, terrifying tiger snarls toward the sound-device. Best shot-Greta Garbo drying her feet...