Word: catchings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Whizzing up Pennsylvania Avenue, the Hoover-Roosevelt car missed its cavalry escort, had to pause before the Post Office building to let the horsemen catch up. On the mile-&-a-quarter drive Mr. Roosevelt kept up a running fire of conversation with Mr. Hoover. The President, his face drawn and lowered, replied in monosyllables. Street crowds along the way pattered out mild applause which the incoming President left to the outgoing President to acknowledge as his final tribute...
Meeting hastily, the Hitler Cabinet discussed measures to expel from Germany all foreign correspondents, did not quite dare last week. Eager to catch a Red, several of the new "auxiliary police'' stormed the apartment of Dr. Lily Keith, Berlin representative of the Moscow Izvestia, while she telephoned the Soviet Ambassador. Bursting in. the "auxiliaries" ransacked Dr. Keith's rooms for two hours, dragged her off to jail. After the Soviet Government had officially demanded Correspondent Keith's release, she was turned loose. Meanwhile more than 350 German Communists (including Reichstag Deputies) were jailed and Berlin police...
...cinema producer (Robert Armstrong), his leading lady (Fay Wray), his first mate (Bruce Cabot) and their entourage visit a remote Pacific island to make a nature picture. The natives seize Fay Wray, tie her up as a sacrifice to their god, King Kong. Presently the producer and his associates catch their first glimpse of King Kong. He is a gigantic whatnot resembling an ape, 50 feet tall, equipped with large teeth and a thunderous snarl. He picks up Fay Wray in one hand as though she were a frog and shuffles off through the jungle, breaking trees and grunting...
...producer, the first mate and several companions set off after Kong. They soon discover that the jungle is full of antediluvian hobgoblins. They try to cross a lake on a raft and a snake-necked brontosaurus dumps them in the water, bites some of them dead. Finally they catch up with Kong. He flicks all except the producer and first mate into a crevasse, puts Fay Wray on top of a dead tree while he wins a wrestling match with a tyrannosaurus. Thumping his chest in horrid triumph he then carries Miss Wray to his mountain eyrie. The first mate...
...appeared that "Mr. Terry" had been persuaded by Caricaturist Low to catch the disease. In an article well sprinkled with Low drawings, "Mr. Terry" explained...