Word: brownings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cool of one morning last week, army officers in high-collared khaki blouses rushed frantically through the streets of Asuncion, placing their troops at strategic corners. Over the walls of the Military College peered little brown soldiers, guns pointed at the nearby Government House. Out at Campo Grande aviation school, cadets stood by their poised machines. But the careful preparations laid by army and navy* garrisons were unnecessary, for their leaders executed a neat little revolution without firing a shot, placed the Government under military control, forced the resignation of the Cabinet...
Souls at Sea (Paramount). On the foggy night in 1841 when the packet William Brown, Liverpool for Boston, disastrously rammed an iceberg off Newfoundland, a seaman named Alexander William Holmes made maritime history. Seaman Holmes, seeing that 32 survivors were too many for his longboat, constituted himself, a sailor and a Negro cook as a jury to decide who should be pitched overboard. Holmes and friends had jettisoned seven men and women before they were picked up by a passing vessel. Brought to Philadelphia for trial, Holmes was convicted of manslaughter with a recommendation for mercy, served six months...
...quick-acting system is necessary. After Joe, the Mayos' doorman, helps a new patient through the bronze doors, a girl clerk registers the name, address, profession and the name of the personal physician, if any, who sent him. The patient then gets a number and a brown envelope to hold the reports of the diagnoses which he will undergo. An illuminated, numbered call board notifies him in what room and at what instant a Mayo diagnostician will be ready for him. Another system of illuminated call boards notifies every Mayo diagnostician when and where patients are waiting. An interlocking...
After a preliminary examination the patient goes into the hands of Mayo specialists. Their reports go into the big brown envelope and then, by mechanical carrier systems, to the original consultant. The patient is then sent home, to his family doctor, or to one of the hospitals in Rochester, as he prefers. No surgery or treatment takes place in the Clinic building...
...scene in which Jack Benny out-gabs such topflight illustrators as McClelland Barclay, Peter Arno, Arthur William Brown and John LaGatta before getting back as good as he gives from wry Rube Goldberg...