Word: besting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secrets of Nature (UFA). This is partly a rearrangement of old UFA shots of animals and insects, partly new material. After a routine educational feature about bees you see how ants get the best of a caterpillar, and how a snail beats them; how they get drunk after drinking a secretion of the green wood bugs. Disguised as a twig, the praying mantis stalks its dinner, and the chameleon, wearing stockings, stalks the praying mantis. The film, winds up with the celebrated fight between the mongoose and the cobra which Paramount interpolated as an allegory in The Letter. It lacks...
...private one between her independent ideas and the standards of her neighbors, the picture is worthwhile, believable. Before it ends the Austrian, a practical, unimaginative fellow up to that time, is inspired to join the Red Army, is killed in what he believes is a war-to-end-war. Best shot: the peasants getting in the wheat...
...freshest advices, both Foreign and Domestick," was printed by William Parkes whose daughter Eleanor later became the mother-in-law of Statesman Patrick Henry. Mr. Parkes described himself as a "Printer, by whom subscriptions are taken . . . at 15 shillings per Ann. And Book Binding is done reasonably, in the best manner." The issues, 7½ in. wide by 12½ in. long, contained but four pages (one sheet folded like letter paper), with two columns on each page...
...districts. He has commanded almost 100 dirigibles. For three years (1925-27), he worked for the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. at Akron, learned English, decided to take out U. S. citizenship papers, changed his mind temporarily. He will settle, he thinks, wherever manufacture and operation of dirigibles promise him the best fortune...
...Army's best flyer and the Guggenheim Fund's safety experimenter, James Harold Doolittle, flew the wings off a plane in which he was practicing inverted dives. He jumped safely with a parachute, and at once put a duplicate plane through the same stunts...