Word: command
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from a razor-slash in a crap game; his third for a prison-guard whose head he has already bashed with a shovel; his fourth and fifth for an auctioneer and a planter trying, he will imagine, to thrust him back into slavery. Rather than sacrifice himself at the command of a Congo witch-doctor he will shoot his sixth, silver bullet at a squirming, greenweed crocodile. But other black men will come after him with silver bullets then, still beating their tom-toms. They will bring him out of the forest dead, all his fine clothes gone except...
After six years of "sick-leave" from direct command of Cities Service and Henry L. Doherty & Co., he decided to celebrate his 62nd birthday by returning and becoming again the active executive head of both. Coincidental with his birthday was the opening of his new building in Manhattan, "Sixty Wall Tower" (at No. 70 Pine Street). The building cost $7,500,000, stands on land of the same value. Its 67 stories and 950-ft. height rank it as Manhattan's third tallest. Notable innovation in it are double-deck elevators, one compartment of which stops at even floors...
Herbert is the more conspicuous of San Francisco's two famed Fleishhacker brothers and is generally thought to take the lead when they confer on mighty matters. People know him better because he is always doing things that command attention, because he is the one apt to be found at teas or dances when his brother Mortimer is at home reading...
...work to help "Speed" snap out of the doldrums after the crash. Oakie is right in his element here and the two best sequences are rough-house scenes between the two pals. The female members of the cast fail to show much initiative, moving mechanically at the director's command. The audience remains well-pleased, however, as the story runs smoothly and maintains its happy-go-lucky atmosphere throughout...
Lieutenant Commander Glutting came to Harvard in the Spring of 1930, and has had charge of instruction in Gunnery. Formerly he was Gunnery officer on the battleship Florida, and between 1924 and 1926 was naval aide to President Coolidge and was attached to the Presidential yacht Mayflower. He commanded the submarine R-4 after the War, and later was given command of one of the S-type submarines...