Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vancouver appealing to Ottawa to control disturbances gone beyond local control...
Lying on his cot in the white glare, Anacleto was suddenly terrified to hear, softly, susurringly, as if from the Beyond, the voice of his dead friend. "Tit me mataste, Anacleto," came the spectral murmur. "You killed me. I am Areo's ghost. You had better confess, Anacleto. You killed me. . . ." Frenzied, bewildered, Anacleto stood it two days, two nights. Then he leaped up screaming: "I'm guilty! I'm guilty! I'm guilty!" A police stenographer rushed in and got a full confession...
...Travelers Aid Society and an opinionated construction engineer. Mack Hale (George Brent) is devoted to Lynn Palmer (Kay Francis) but he regards her welfare work as a waste of time. When she refuses to desert it, they agree to part forever. Possibly the real excuse for Stranded, beyond the individual fashion show which Kay Francis contributes throughout, was Warner Brothers' remorse for not including in Black Fury the scene in which a beautiful girl harangues a group of striking workers. This occurs in Stranded. When it is over Lynn Palmer and Mack Hale are happily reunited with nothing left...
...praised the performance, drove away humming I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls and Then You'll Remember Me. A match for the singing was the ingenuity shown in the homemade costumes. A wine-colored cape had once been a feather tick. Old lace curtains had been doctored beyond recognition. The barefooted "gypsies" shook pie-plate tambourines, wore chicken-feed sacking which had been dyed yellow and scarlet, trimmed with bits of shiny tin. Average cost per costume...
...Great Barrington, Mass., educated at Fisk University, Harvard and the University of Berlin, has taught school and served for 14 years as professor of economics and history at Atlanta University. Famed among Negroes as editor of The Crisis, which he founded in 1910, Author Du Bois became widely known beyond intellectual circles of his own race as an executive officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, founder of the Pan-African congresses, author, in 1919, of a sensational article on racial discrimination in the U. S. Army that led to a brief suspension of The Crisis...