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Then, in August, Great Britain slapped the 75% ad valorem tax on all U.S. films. The Loew-supported bottom fell out of Screen Plays, Inc. That night, trying to drown their sorrows in gin, the partners succeeded in refloating their enterprise on a tipsy wave of optimism. In four days of desperate rewriting, Screen Plays, Inc. shelled $339,000 off the picture's "nut," without sacrificing the essentials of the story. Loew agreed to stay in. In September, So This Is New York finally went into production-and came out $30,000 under the final budget. Even silent Stan...
...expect. ... I profoundly agree with the thesis of the writer that there was something more human and greater than "mysticism" in Gandhi. But the "notably unmystical metaphor" which you attribute to him-"If we Indians could only spit in unison, we would form a puddle big enough to drown 300,000 Englishmen"-was never uttered...
...Gandhi's All-India Congress Party, bolted, saying that the Congress was an instrument to impose Hindu rule on India's Moslem minority. With a notably unmystical metaphor, Gandhi said: "If we Indians could only spit in unison, we would form a puddle big enough to drown 300,000 Englishmen." But Jinnah refused to spit in unison with Hindus, for any cause. He demanded, and got, his separate Moslem state of Pakistan...
...Brides-in-the-Bath murder case posed the question: Can a man drown his wife without external signs of violence? Sir Bernard upended a nurse in a tub and the water struck her nose with such force that she became unconscious. He revived the nurse and the husband was hanged. That was one of 110 murderers Sir Bernard helped convict...
...rejected by her along with the swastika medallion he presses into her palm. That is why she tries to commit suicide when her husband believes she must be a Nazi at heart upon learning her brother's beliefs. It is then that Aunt Nora realizes she cannot let Frieda drown even as the waters swirl over her head for she is not so much a German as a human being...