Word: crude
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second feature on the bill, "Spend thrift," although not much to speak of, at least does not pretend to be serious. It is the crude isle of a designing woman marrying a dumb aristocrat for money. However, Henry Fonda and George Barber with a great many really funny wise cracks, and their humorous gyrations make for ridiculous coincidence. There is more honest enjoyment in "Spendthrift" than "To Mary With Love...
Featuring the Medical School exhibition which is being held in Holden Chapel, original home of the school, is the miniature model of the first operation performed under either at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1846. Nearby are collections of all types of medical instruments, ranging from the very crude ones of early days up to the highly developed ones of today. The center of the room is taken over by an architect's model of the Medical School today and the proposed building for the Dental School...
Died. Louis Blériot, 64, first man to fly the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine; of heart disease; in Paris. In 1909, in a crude monoplane with a 28-h. p. motor, short, mustachioed Louis Blériot lumbered up from Les Barragues, buzzed across to Dover some 250 ft. above the water at an average speed of 45 m. p. h., won a $5,000 prize. Same year, after a serious crackup, he stopped flying, went into airplane manufacture. In 1927, when Lindbergh made the first solo flight from New York to Paris, Pioneer...
...Nazi specialties, dearly loves to shoot wild boar at the hunting lodge of Poland's President. Within 24 hours the German Press, which had been lauding Nose-Thumber Greiser, slued around. It was suddenly discovered-or at least printed-that Adolf Hitler had been "furious" about the crude nose-thumbing, so lacking in "good tone." Thus rapped, Danzig's Greiser made most conciliatory and reassuring declarations to the Polish representative in Danzig, left spunky little Warsaw more than ever convinced that the way to deal with a Nazi is to smack him first...
...taste of aristocratic beauties, international spies, missing jewels, noblemen in disguise, lurking assassins. They have a spice, but just a spice, of sex. And through them all trickles, a rich essence of good food and drink. The latest Oppenheim is no exception to the Oppenheim rule. Reduced to its crude elements of malt, sugar and salt, it might seem a lifeless and unlikely concoction. But to Oppenheim addicts it is a thoroughly lively and likely affair...