Word: crews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Magnificent Brute (Universal) investigates the lighter side of life in the Pennsylvania steel towns. At his boardinghouse, Big Steve Andrews (Victor McLaglen) is idolized by Mrs. Finney, its proprietress, and her 10-year-old son. In the mill, he runs its most efficient furnace crew, to the chagrin of bragging Bill Morgan (William Hall). Their rivalry reaches its climax after Big Steve has stolen Bill's girl (Binnie Barnes), when Big Steve climbs into the ring with a professional wrestler imported by Bill. The wrestler throws Big Steve who, it appears, has lost $400 contributed by fellow workers...
Small pecan growers pick their own crops whereas big growers depend on nomadic bands who go anutting after the cotton picking season is over. Threshers may be Negroes, Mexicans, half-breed Indians or poor whites, and the typical crew, made up of a family and friends, cruises from job to job in dilapidated automobiles. They camp in the groves they are picking, put in a ten or eleven hour day, spend evenings singing and dancing, like a siesta at noon, a fiesta every weekend. Threshers, who climb and shake the trees, make from $4 to $6 a day. Gatherers...
...first volume of another series of novels, the O'Neill's were shown occupying the centre of the same grim stage that the Lonigans recently vacated. Although they are poorer than the Lonigans, they are much like them in temperament: a quarreling, short-tempered, superstitious crew, constantly fighting among themselves and lapsing into dreamy reveries, the men regularly going on the wagon and as regularly falling off, the women snarling at the children, cursing the men, slandering each other. Consequently, while A World I Never Made does not deepen or add perspective to James Farrell's picture...
Work was started Saturday afternoon; it must continue slowly because of the extreme care necessitated in working with dangerously high voltages. When questioned, the foreman of the job expected that the crew would work all night, probably finishing some time this morning...
Street cars in Manila stopped suddenly to let crew and passengers run in mad panic one day last week. In mad panic storekeepers bolted their doors. In mad panic constables fled from main streets. In mad panic soldiers on guard at the palace, where President Manuel Quezon of the Philippines was secluded, flourished weapons against the saddest paraders Manila had ever seen. Chanting "Give us Liberty or Give us Death," flaunting the same cry on placards, 235 lepers who are normally cooped up in Manila's San Lazaro Hospital marched through the city's streets, with...