Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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R.K.O. Boston: "Charlie Chan In London"--not the best of this series of mystery films based upon Earl Der Bigger's stories about the philosophic detective Chan. This theatre has the added disadvantage of a long and typically dull vaudeville bill...
...Free State this speech may have made President de Valera seem a bigger man, but at Geneva it stirred a hornet's nest among the small minority of small nations, such as Switzerland and Panama, still hostile to Russia's entry. The Swiss Government, strongly conservative, grew so excited that Swiss reporters at Berne conjectured fantastically, "If Russia is admitted we may resign and the League may have to move out of Switzerland." It took M. Barthou, Sir John and the Italian Chief Delegate, tall, hollow-cheeked Baron Pompeo Aloisi, about 24 hours to get the drafting work...
...understood that the band, which delighted the crowds at last fall's football games with its renditions of "Wintergreen for President" and other tunes of similarly classical nature, has not exhausted its bag of tricks, and will this year produce bigger and better novelty numbers than ever before...
...thousand more Chinese made bedlam as General Tsai was driven through narrow Chinatown streets plastered with his portrait in vivid yellows and greens. "There never was anything like it!" said Detective Daniel Devoti of the Chinatown squad. "They are giving General Tsai a bigger welcome than they gave 37 years ago to the great Viceroy Li Hung- chang...
...Jewel of Messrs. Skiff & Ross, however, has not glittered unblemished for the past 33 years. During the War it went into debt. Deficits loomed bigger & bigger and preferred dividends accumulated. Messrs. Skiff & Ross retired, and Manhattan's banking house of Lehman Brothers, which had floated Jewel stock, took command. The late Harold Lehman, nephew of New York's Governor, asked a Wartime friend to take charge of rehabilitation as vice president & treasurer. Resigning from his post in the Bureau of Supplies & Accounts, Commander John Milton Hancock, U. S. N., went to work...