Word: doves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Walking back to his hotel, he was surrounded and followed by a friendly curious crowd. He looked as if he were leading a parade. Casually he threw away the stub of the cigar he was smoking. The crowd wavered, broke, dove into the gutter for the treasured butt. Citizen Coolidge halted to watch men, women and children scramble and scratch, kick and slap. A woman arose from the scrimmage with the remains of the cigar. As she dropped it into her handbag, Citizen Coolidge grinned his amusement...
...Garbo, who scored fifth although she had made but one sound-synchronized picture, no talking pictures, had appeared less frequently than her rivals. That the Garbo popularity is increasing is attested by the fact that in 1928 she failed to be among the five lead ers ? Bow, Moore, Dove, Daniels...
...tipped the nose of his plane to the field, left his motor open. Two observers watched him, amazed that he was going into a needless power dive. Below him, in a little one-story observation shack, with a platform on the roof, should have been the night-watchman. Pridham dove his Pitcairn to zoom over it. The observers presumed that he intended to rouse the watchman with the snarl of his motor. He misjudged his distance by inches. His wing ripped off the platform, the plane out of control hurtled about 100 feet to the Connecticut River and landed...
...passenger train lumbered past. The driver put the bus in gear, started across the tracks. Those who were still looking out the windows had one short moment of agony. An express train shrieked out from behind the passenger cars, dove into the bus, splintered its thick body like a fruit crate. The wreckage stopped 160 yds. away. The driver and nine of the ten children were killed...
...office price. Hours ahead a crowd ready, and willing to be come popeyed, collected at the flood lighted theatre entrance. By 9 p. m. those on the curb and those in boxes had seen Marion Davies (white satin and ermine), Lila Lee (green velvet and chin chilla), Billie Dove (satin, orchids, ermines) pass through the entirely fake Chinese portals of the Fox-owned cinepalace. At 10 p. m. the picture began...