Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this post during the month of July we will train about 1,000 boys of high school age in the Citizens' Military Training Camp. During that period we plan to show free of charge sound pictures each evening...
...last year and a half cinemanufacturers have not produced 30 pictures of 'high moral tone and alive with romance, adventure and historical worth." Herewith a list of 24 which might do for a school-age camp: Cimarron, Rango, City Lights, Trader Horn, Skippy, A Connecticut Yankee, Chances, The Viking Spirit of Notre Dame, The Champ, Forbidden Adventure, Huckleberry Finn, Penrod and Sam Devotion, Pardon Us, Touchdown, The Man Who Played God, Around the World in 80 Minutes, Lovers Courageous, Alter Tomorrow, Sooky, Hell Divers, Young America, Destry Rides Again...
...huge circle about the mooring mast at Camp Kearney, near San Diego, Calif., ten thousand people assembled one morning last week to watch the U. S. S. Akron dock for refueling after a turbulent transcontinental passage. Poking through a gradually lifting fog, the great ship dipped slowly three times, three times was whisked up by rising strata of warm air before the ground crews could grab the spider lines from rings on two dangling cables. The fourth time the crowd cheered as the crew caught hold, started to tug the Akron's tossing silver nose toward the stub mast...
Last week President Hoover & friends drove out to the Rapidan camp for two days. He pulled on hip boots at once, went fishing by himself, caught twelve trout. One was 14 in. long. After lunch he napped. In a cold drizzle during the late afternoon he reeled in eight more trout, bringing his day's catch to the legal limit. Sunday newspapers and White House mail were dropped into the camp from an Army airplane. Wet, bleak weather drove the President & party back to Washington early...
...incidents, each with different characters. Wrote Critic Edmund Wilson, after seeing parts of Viva Mexico: "The first is a tragedy of the Mexican peons under the Diaz regime; the second a romance of the master class during the same period and the third a story of one of the camp followers in the army of the revolution. ... As you watch . . . you are ready to believe that Eisenstein has indeed created the supreme masterpiece up-to-date of the movies." Director Eisenstein took his huge film of Viva Mexico with him last week to shape it for production in Moscow...