Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Passing over the border from France into Spain one afternoon last week was a motorcade of five armored motor trucks, a motorcycle police escort, a car of armed police inspectors. The trucks carried $40,000,000 in gold bullion, and its passing from French to Spanish hands ended a long dispute. Bank of France vaults having held it for years, the Spanish Republican Government and Generalissimo Francisco Franco's Government fought over its ownership during the Civil War. When the war ended, the French were reluctant to relinquish the gold until Spain paid for the board and lodging...
...slang expressions are appropriate, they should be used without apology (that is, without quotation marks), and if they are not appropriate, they should not be used." Professor Perrin knows slang when he sees it: to park a car is general English; to park your hat is slang...
Although his fortune is estimated at well above $5,000,000, there is no swish to William Woodward. He owns no marble palace, no yacht, no private railroad car. He has four homes (Manhattan town house, Long Island country place, Newport cottage, Maryland farm) but none of them is pretentious. His four daughters, beauteous like their mother, were never advertised as Glamor Girls, had no noisy coming-out parties. His only son sails a 15-foot boat on Long Island Sound?and when Father Woodward wants to go yachting he sails the little...
...teaching cinemaddicts how to commit crimes, by illustrating a practically foolproof way to commit one. When Frank Ross (James Cagney), a fresh reporter, presses too close to the racketeers running his home town, the boys slug him, douse him with whiskey, prop him behind the steering wheel of a car and head it toward a crowded intersection. The result starts Jimmy off on a long term for manslaughter and gives Fellow Prisoner Hood Stacey (George Raft) his opportunity to meet "the first really square guy I've ever known." It also touches off the most authentic and exciting prison...
...four rays signalled the four standards of Moral Re-Armament: Absolute Honesty, Purity, Unselfishness, Love. MRA, launched in the East this spring, had been brought to the West Coast by Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman and 1,000 followers, many of whom traveled across the land on a 22-car "MRA Special." In the Hollywood Bowl, the Buchmanites sat on the stage beneath the acoustic shell newly labeled NEW MEN . . . NEW NATIONS . . . A NEW WORLD. To see and hear them, 25,000 Southern Californians jammed the Bowl, 10,000 more were turned away...