Word: destroy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chairman Dies retorted that he would call Fuhrer Kuhn on condition that he produce all Bund records. Then he added: ''We have almost conclusive evidence that Kuhn ordered all Bund posts throughout the U. S. to destroy their records...
...phosgene concentration of one part per thousand, of which a single breath would probably kill an unprotected man. Hence in practice such a mask is a very nearly complete protection. It is the same with shelters. ... A single four-ton bomb . . . aimed exactly right . . . would no doubt destroy a shelter which was safe against bombs weighing one ton. Nevertheless, I shall call a shelter bombproof if it will stand up to a one-ton bomb. ... A one-ton [gas] bomb will poison 120 million cubic feet of air, for example a layer [of air] twelve feet high and covering nearly...
...report in detail on Palestine is exuberant, redhaired, I. N. S. Correspondent H. R. Knickerbocker. According to Mr. Knickerbocker, if Arabs run short of ammunition, they take it from the police. If they lack money, they rob a British bank. If annoyed at Jewish ownership of land, they destroy deed records in the Land Registry Office. Not one British policeman risks murder by patrolling Jerusalem streets after midnight. Knickerbocker conclusions: "Nowhere in the British Empire, save perhaps among the savage tribes of the Northwest Frontier [India], do such conditions of disorder and contempt for British authority exist as today...
...sensational because, in making it, Mr. Gable forces Miss Loy to wreck her plane. (In one of the takes for this scene, Miss Loy was trapped in the burning plane's cabin, had to be rescued in earnest by Mr. Gable.) Apologetic but not penitent, Gable pretends to destroy the film. It remains to plague him through frame after frame of realistic action. By the time Myrna Loy has saved Gable's job by direct appeal to his boss, snubbed his arch rival, quarreled with him, and, unknowingly, accepted his aid in an effort to find a brother...
...picture for double features because of its length (106 min.), it should persuade even cinemaddicts who are sour on newsreels that they would do well to give Graham McNamee one more chance. Good shot: picture within a picture, when Miss Loy sees the newsreel Clark Gable has pretended to destroy, at a Manhattan preview...