Word: dreadnought
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...result is one of the finest action pictures since Actor Cooper and Director Henry Hathaway once before pooled their he-man talents in Lives of a Bengal Lancer. Although the plot demands that Filipinos be portrayed as terrified by Moro juramentados (dreadnought Mohammedans to whom killing a Christian is a sure passport to heaven), a few such scenes were deleted by Producer Goldwyn, at the request of Commonwealth President Manuel Quezon. Excellent shots: Moros catapulting from trees over a stockade to steal ammunition; Canavan encountering the head of a companion (Broderick Crawford) who encountered some Moros in the jungle...
...twelve abuilding) that are among the fastest in the world, a big destroyer and submarine fleet, plus mosquito-boats manned by daredevils, all of which makes Italy an ugly foe to fight in the western Mediterranean. Hero of the Italian navy is Rizzo, motorboat commander who sank an Austrian dreadnought in the World War 21 years ago. June 10, the anniversary of that day will be celebrated throughout Italy as Navy...
...appearance a pure preRaphaelite, she was actually more like an emancipated Bryn Mawr girl. With her towering brother Adrian (6 ft. 5 in.), and some friends, she was a party to the famed hoax on a British admiral and the entire ship's company of H.M.S. Dreadnought. Disguised as the Emperor of Abyssinia & party (see cut. p. 93), they were brought aboard with due ceremony, barely restrained the captain from ordering a 21-gun salute, got safely away undiscovered...
...Shaw asked: "Why didn't you choose pugilism instead of poetry? They talked about plays and cathedrals; when the War was mentioned, Shaw "let out a whinny...like a young colt in distress." Sylvia Pankhurst, famed ex-suffraget leader, gave McKay a job reporting for her Workers' Dreadnought. Back in New York he became associate editor of The Liberator under Eastman, quarreled with the Reddest of his colleagues, received an office visit from Elinor Wylie, whose "beauty and Park Avenue elegance" flustered him terribly. At Eugen Boissevain's house he met Charlie Chaplin, who was chased...
...Captain Ernest Clegg, a British company commander on the Western Front, went to London on leave. While there, he was invited to visit his old friend Captain Kiddle of the dreadnought Revenge, which was anchored with the rest of the British Grand Fleet in Scapa Flow. Mrs. Clegg thought it would be a nice change for her husband, packed him off to Scotland. An hour after Captain Kiddle welcomed his guest on his quarterdeck, the Grand Fleet steamed out on emergency orders and the Battle of Jutland, greatest modern naval engagement...