Word: crawled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about would be of great value to Britain. Nevertheless, there were still plenty of members of Parliament who rose to decry the Palestine plan. Elder Statesman David Lloyd George, head of the War Cabinet that made the Jewish Homeland pledge, called the Government's policy an attempt "to crawl out of their share of a definite bargain." Labor and many normal Government supporters seconded Winston Churchill's attack on this "act of repudiation." Alarmed, the Government sent a "three-line whip" to Conservatives, ordering them to support the Palestine plan as a confidence measure, and managed to squeeze...
...determined to be a diplomat. He flunked his first examination, but managed to get a clerkship in Cairo. In 1904, his star began to rise. Hunter Roosevelt I read young Mr Grew's Sport and Travel in the Far East instantly concluded that a man who could crawl into a cave and shoot a tiger as Joe Grew had done, must have the makings of a diplomat...
...babies arrived. Suddenly a light bomber roared a hundred feet overhead, its machine gun working-then two more. Because the simplest horror is the most stunning-automatically "our feet take us" to look at heaped bodies on the road, on the barbed-wire barricades, or those still trying to crawl through...
...Mechanic Fleigelmann decided to fly back 2,400 miles to San Francisco in a Douglas B18 bomber, which can fly 2,000 miles with a full load and the usual crew of six experienced men. Inasmuch as Private Fleigelmann was not even one experienced flier, he was lucky to crawl out of the wreckage in a pineapple patch five miles from Luke Field...
...critical analysis discloses flaws in plenty. The action occasionally slows to a tortuous crawl in sequences where long pieces of quasi-philosophy or super-sentimentality are inserted. Also on the debit side is a strained and obvious attempt to give the picture social significance. But these faults are not sufficient to weight down an otherwise light and airy fantasy. Roland Young and Billie Burke, whose reputations characterize the film, fit happily into its mood and spirit; while the names of Janet Gaynor and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. look well on the marquee...