Word: drowne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...master situation of the picture-a contest between Powell, as salesman of the policy, to keep Hobart alive, and his defrauders' determination to kill him off. To any person of the slightest moral stamina, it ought not to be laughable to see two low fellows trying to drown a middle-aged man, supposedly sick, in a swimming pool. Yet this scene is very funny. So are the results when the villains, now desperate, hire Genevieve (Glenda Farrell) to excite J. J.'s passion, hoping the rise in blood pressure will kill him. But Genevieve falls in love with...
Flyer Bjorkvall did not drown, but he nearly did. After fighting heart-breaking weather for 2,400 befogged and snowy miles, he suddenly found his engine overheating. With great luck he encountered a French trawler, succeeded in plopping safely into the chop beside her. Gushed he by wireless next day: "I felt myself being lifted over the rail while a voice cried, 'Courage, mon brave!' I believe that, for the first time in my life, I must have fainted...
...member of the faculty is being sought to sponsor the club. Third party members are prohibited from joining the club because they always have to drown their sorrow...
...became his mistress. But her father refused to let her marry one of the shiftless Crones. When she became pregnant she almost went crazy while Corney made plans that came to nothing. At desolate, run-down Youghal Corney decided to confess to her father. Thereupon she tried to drown herself, brought on a miscarriage that killed her. Corney became one of the eccentric characters of Cork, grew old enough to realize that if he could live his life over he would do it all again, except for the week when he had been "untrue to his sins" and begged Elsie...
...Bilbo is hedging his bets. He can't lose. If he can lead Conner off into the middle of the stream and drown him politically, then he won't be back on his neck when he comes up for reelection...