Word: demolishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fall disentangles himself from his battered machine, forced down behind the enemy lines. He steals an enemy plane, wings his way toward his own camp. Meanwhile, his true friend, John Powell (Charles Rogers), hearing that Bruce has been shot down by the Germans, sallies forth, Achilles-like, to demolish Germania for its destruction of his Patroclus. His sputtering machine-gun bespeaks grim, relentless rage. Prussian planes careen downward, leaving swift trails of smoke. Sausage-shaped dirigibles collapse in flames, Armstrong in the German plane flies joyously toward his heroic friend but is not recognized. With volleys of oaths bursting from...
...Mongolian, he carries her off to the most devilish abyss in old Chinatown, "the inner circle of the mile of hell." There, on the point of worse than death, it occurs to her to repeat the Lord's Prayer. In answer, God sends the earthquake of 1906 to demolish the villain...
...fact that the Ford and Dodge Companies are using steel bodies. He declared that just as the old wooden Pullman cars have been discarded, so wooden automobile bodies will in a few years be obsolete. Said he: "It's the splinters that kill. . . . Steel laughs at shocks that demolish wood. . . . Smaller, lighter, more economical, better looking, longer lasting motor cars are coming...
...well arouse an even more heated controversy between violent detractors and equally violent defenders. Those who would be in touch with the newest movement in dramaturgy cannot afford to miss the opportunity of seeing this Dos Passos play. For it is around plays such as these, which utterly demolish the conventions of the traditional drama, that the theatrical battle of the moment is waging...
...least two of his romances. The shadow of the silver screen is never lifted from this one. The plot is based on the legend of an Amazonian queen who loved her bitterest foe. In modern Madrid, Conchita Douglas, a woman of spectacular proportions who did not hesitate to demolish bare-handed a sinewy gentleman who caused her annoyance, fell in love with the son of an old enemy. Realizing that she was too old for him, she resolved to sacrifice herself, told him (falsely) that she was his mother, and projected him disinterestedly into the arms of young and charming...