Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Insignificance. As an official visit without any official purpose, Lord Tweeds-muir's stop in Washington was a kaleidoscope of glittering but insignificant formalities. The Governor-General had come with his aides-de-camp and his wife with her lady-in-waiting, Mrs. George Pape. They were met at the Canadian border by Richard Southgate, chief of the State Department's Division of Protocol, and by additional military and naval aides supplied by the U. S. They were met again at Washington's Union Station by Secretary of State Hull, by the U. S. Minister to Canada...
Back in the 1920s when the tourist camp was burgeoning into a national eyesore, Pierce Petroleum Corp. launched in the Midwest a chain of pleasant-looking roadside hotels complete with Renaissance restrooms and Colonial halls hung with $20,000 worth of genuine Currier & Ives prints. Attractive though these small hotels were, they turned out to be a great financial flop, and in 1930 along with the rest of Pierce Petroleum's assets, were sold to what is now Harry Ford Sinclair's Consolidated Oil Corp. For its hotels, refineries, pipelines, filling stations, Pierce Petroleum received among other things...
Spain Laughs is a series of casually connected scenes occurring in the camp of the Loyalists as they wait for the exchange party to show up. A court-martial condemns to death a captured Rebel and an old man who helped insurgents. A prostitute promises to reform, help the government cause. A man quarrels with his son for joining the milicianos, then volunteers himself. The sergeant greets his rank of recruits as ''Soldiers of Free Spain," shakes each by the hand, calls him ''Comrade!" When the Loyalist general is finally brought back, the treacherous Rebels manage...
...good word for her as she tackled her first day's work: Advised a jobless old woman how to find a home, helped a mother control a wayward son, offered suggestions to aid a man with a brother in San Quentin, rescued the residents of a trailer camp from ousting by health officials. Starting the other half of her job, Columnist O'Connor wrote...
Based on the novel by James Oliver Curwood, Warner Brothers' production of "God's Country and the Woman" with George Brent in the leading role provides excellent entertainment. It is a story of the North Woods with the major part of the picture taking place in a lumber camp. George Brent plays the part of a worthless brother of a hardworking lumber executive who is stranded in the camp of the brother's chief competitor with no way out but to work. The rival company is controlled by Beverly Roberts, as rugged as the men she employs. Brent, whose entire...