Word: dark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their president. Last week the Yugoslav Railwaymen's Union elected Boris "an honorary locomotive engineer" because "he really knows how to drive a locomotive." Groping about Malacanan Palace before dawn, early-rising President Manuel Quezon of the Philippines reached for a light switch, barked his shins in the dark, found his way to a telephone, ordered immediate cancellation of Philippine daylight saving time two weeks before it was scheduled to end by law. In Florence, Crown Prince Umberto of Italy called upon Crown Prince Mihai of Rumania who had just had his royal appendix out. Mihai, 15, had been...
...Supreme Court was delegated to the Attorney General by the Judiciary Act of 1789. First Attorney General was elo quent, dark-eyed Edmund Randolph, George Washington's Virginia lawyer, whose record of attainment at 36 was fabulous. Asked by Congress for recommendations on how to better the administration of justice, Lawyer Randolph industriously analyzed the defects of the original Judiciary Act, suggested changes...
...assisted by Arthur Shields of the Abbey Theatre and in which five members of the Abbey Theatre make their first U. S. cinema appearance together-is considerably less than that. Nonetheless, changed, abbreviated and tautened to suit the tastes of the U. S. cinema audience, it remains a dark and ferociously exciting melodrama, well worthy of comparison with Director Ford's 1935 contribution to the same subject, The Informer. Theme of the 0'Casey version of the play is the tragic muddleheadedness of the revolutionists, the Irish romanticism that made their rebellion fizzle off in ranting, saloon fights...
...epidemic breaks out, Trent retracts his testimony against Ludlow so as to continue his research, serves humanity, marries Ruth. David Boehm's hard-hitting screen play is far better craftsmanship than the ponderous directorship of Charles Vidor. Flying to Hollywood, Producer Schulberg's attention was attracted to dark John Trent, .who suggests a cross between Richard Barthelmess and George Raft, in the coffee shop of the Kansas City Airport. When a female passenger said audibly: "That's a dish!" Producer Schulberg offered him a job. Trent's real name is Laverne Browne. Son of an Orange...
Prowler In North Andover, Mass., awakened by noises at his bedroom window, Salvatore Lamonica, 80, grabbed his gun, fired two shots in the dark at a prowler. Next morning he found his son Paul dead beneath the window...