Word: elbow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Europe (Columbia) is no international storm warning, but the most enjoyable leg-pulling in a coon's age on such favorite cinema standbys as spies, secret war gadgets and Scotland Yard. Made in England with Hollywood money to satisfy the Buy-British quota laws, Clouds over Europe 1) elbow-digs at British stuffocracy sufficiently to get a nod from most Anglophobes; 2) contains the sort of British acting calculated to warm an Anglophile's heart; and 3) has enough thrill, pace and lovestuff to stay on the top side of any U. S. double bill...
...Balkan rulers had visited London or Berlin. Mussolini had visited Berlin, and Hitler repaid the compliment. King George & Queen Elizabeth had been to Paris, and in turn had received President Lebrun in London. To make the utmost of their trip to the U. S.,* the King had at his elbow Secretary Alan Frederick Lascelles, who wrote his speeches, and Canada's Prime Minister Mackenzie King (the Queen's kinsman), who edited them...
...State Department he transferred the foreign offices of Commerce and Agriculture. (Assistant Secretary of Commerce Richard C. Patterson Jr., already miffed by the elevation over him of Edward J. Noble to Harry Hopkins' elbow, promptly resigned.) Also, the Foreign Service Buildings Commission, hitherto independent...
With star hurler and captain Bob Leahy sidelined by a chipped elbow, MelCollard's mediocre Boston University nine are due for their third defeat of the season at the hands of Harvard's smooth-playing, slugging 1939 varsity batsmen on Soldiers Field today...
...assistant to the president. He knew her again after the War, when both worked for the Red Cross in Louisiana. Howard Hunter has known her well ever since 1935, when Harry Hopkins picked her out of State relief work in Iowa, put her at Hunter's elbow in Chicago running the women's division of WPA's Region...