Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than his comrades. When Holt falls in love with an unknown, charming lady (Mona Barrie) at a fiesta, she turns out to be the wife of his commanding officer (Antonio Moreno). Holt saves Moreno from perishing in the jungle after a crash, steals an enemy plane, bombs an ammunition dump, captures the Paraguayan ace, El Zorro, "the fox who flies like an eagle...
...exception of the Piggly Wiggly corner in 1923, the Stutz coup was the last big corner ever executed on the New York Stock Exchange. In a pious moment a few years later the Governors took steps to prevent them by rules & regulations. Another result of that squeeze was to dump considerable amounts of Stutz stock in the hands of the good friends of Allan Ryan's father-principally Charles Michael Schwab. Except for one short interlude, Bethlehem Steel's aging chairman has had Stutz ever since...
...nick to a porphyry castle, where a queen named She (Helen Gahagan) mistakes Leo Vincey for his ancestor, explains that she has been in love with him for 500 years. The hospitality at the castle is good; the Queen's character, bad. When she tries to dump Tanya into a cauldron, Leo Vincey rescues her, runs away. He and his associates find themselves trapped in the cave of the mystic flame. The Queen jumps into the flame to show Leo that it will do him no harm. Instead of rejuvenating her, it turns her into an old lady. Muttering...
...child-raising. But Ginger, once installed in the matron's smart house, is bad copy indeed. She takes an instant dislike to her beauteous, black-haired benefactress whom she insults with or without provocation. She knocks over vases, upsets dinner with her bad manners, complains that "this dump is an ice box," thinks all the servants are waiters. By the time she has persuaded the Parker son (Jackie Searl) that sliding down banisters and becoming embroiled in gutter fisticuffs is more fun than harp-twanging, she is the favorite household pet of everyone except Mrs. Parker. That she finally...
Traveler Balfour found Oriental night life squalid, Damascus disappointing, with trams and a dump heap of wrecked automobiles bulking large in his impressions. He saw no cedars on Lebanon, was bored by the Syrian desert, slept soundly in the wilderness while his companions complained that the howling of jackals kept them awake. But at Baalbek Traveler Balfour's up-to-date boredom crumbled as he brooded over the temples of the past, felt his heart beat more rapidly as he awakened to the enchantment of the legendary cities of the East...