Word: detainer
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BERLIN--Authorized Nazi spokesmen said tonight that Germany still hopes to recover the American steamer City of Flint and its cargo of contraband despite refusal of the Norwegian Government to detain the vessel at Bergen after internment of its Nazi prize crew...
Sleepy "Shay" Minton managed to detain Senator Logan's passed bill at the Senate's threshold last week by a motion to reconsider, but if it passes the House this week, Kentucky's Logan will have a historic triumph over "administrative autocracy...
...last, his discursive letters shrink to notes and telegrams, their subjects swell to dictatorial size: "Advise you send them six months forced labour in mines. . . . Today at all costs Rostov must be taken. . . . Mobilize all forces. Immediately set afoot everything for catching the culprits. Stop all motor cars and detain them for triple checking." At the same time characteristically the little old pamphleteer who had spent so much of his exile dreaming and scribbling in the World's libraries pens a humble request to a librarian to be allowed to take out reference books after hours: "I would return...
...editions of children's books, reasonably good at fashionable sports and lives in the smallest house (living room, bedroom, bath) in Beverly Hills. Afflicted by chronic insomnia and aware that she will not be able to sleep until dawn, she employs every decorous reason she can invent to detain guests. In Rendezvous, she had three duplicates of all dresses and shoes to avoid delays for wardrobe replacements. Transatlantic Tunnel (Gaumont-British) exhibits the British cinema industry, long noted for its delvings into history, hopefully examining the future. Suggested by the speech in which Stanley Baldwin declared that an alliance...
...fortunate that none of the passengers in Channel Crossing (see above) encounters the hero of this picture on his way to the boat. Mr. Latimer (Clive Brook) owns a house on the Dover Road where it is his whimsy to detain persons bound for France for the purpose of meddling in their business. Unlike the morose financier in Channel Crossing, who would doubtless have murdered Mr. Latimer on sight, the people whom Mr. Latimer entertains in Where Sinners Meet are four amiable peewees, admirably suited to his favorite pastime of interrupting elopements to make sure that the participants are well...