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Word: bloods (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood develops a habit, nor life, nor death, nor things present, nor things to come . . . nor any other creature shall be able to separate it from the love of making that one sort of picture. The latest fad is drama filmed in the throbbing heart of India, replete with blood-thirsty native revolutionaries and Oxford accented imperialists. "Gunga Din," which begins its regular run at Keith's today, is the most recent piece de resistance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/1/1939 | See Source »

...film. Thoroughly as exciting and far more skillfully made than any of its predecessors, it adds to the usual story of native uprisings constant suspense, some rollicking humor, and incidentally an interesting characterization of Kipling's immortal water boy. Battling a band of natives who worship the goddess of blood and show their devotion by strangling some thirty thousand persons a year, are Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. These men engage in the usual pitched battles, of course, but this time skill and originality of direction make them more than mere spectacles; and more important, the leads...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/1/1939 | See Source »

After the faceoff the blood begins to flow in copious quantities. The Winthrop forward line, composed of Jack Kennedy, Torby Macdonald, and Ben Smith goes crashing down toward the Lowell cage, battering the puck about like an old shoe. The usual result of such a foray into enemy territory is a terrific 10-man collision, the nucleus of which is the man with the puck. There is no escaping this sort of defense. Then Lowell's Bud Doering takes the misshapen rubber disk that has been beaten to a pulp by the Winthrop bludgeons, and careens down the ice until...

Author: By Joseph P. Lyford, | Title: WHAT'S HIS NUMBER? | 2/1/1939 | See Source »

Opposed to the pro-intervention speakers was onetime Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin, who has made no secret of his fondness for Herr Hitler. He moralized: "The French Government should be able to say to the Spanish people, once the war is ended, 'I have no Spanish blood on my hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Bloodless Hands | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...Pittsburgh, Mrs. Alexandria Grodecki applied for a divorce. Grounds: her husband Anthony frightened her by "Dracula-like" behavior, putting lighted candles in his ears, shouting, "I eat blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Husband | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

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