Word: emblemmed
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...with Beelzebub. After that only Roger's opportune horseback arrival could possibly save her life. In spite of valiant effort by a harassed cast, the dialog is of the prithee and methinks kind and never gets the strophe of real human talk. MacMurray, heretofore a trade emblem of flip 20th-century youth, invents a kind of brogue which fails to transport him back two centuries and a half. Best shots: careful and authentic reproductions of colonial candle-dripping, house-raising parties, medical methods...
...Sixteen Canadian curling teams: an all-day match for the Gordon International Medal, emblem of the championship of North America; 211 to 176, against 16 U. S. teams; at Montreal...
...arrived were trickling out of Spain last week. Said Chicago Airman Hal Du Berrier, reaching Paris: "I may fight in China next, Spain isn't to my taste. The Russians got everything into their hands in the last few weeks. Just before I left we received a new .emblem with the Soviet insignia. The stationery of the Air Ministry now has a Red Soviet star. What I cannot understand is how anybody can pretend the so-called Valencia Government is anything but a Soviet Government under Moscow's orders. ... A regular expeditionary force has been landed in Spain...
...electorate this year loved him not less, but Franklin Roosevelt more. In addition, his Party's right wing split off, merged last summer with New York State's American Labor Party. Neither Communists nor Socialists were displeased at losing strength to this new faction, under whose emblem last week some 275,000 New Yorkers voted for Roosevelt and Lehman. Red Browder had proclaimed from the start that his Party's ambition was to lose its identity in a national Farmer-Labor Party in 1940. Last week in Chicago the Socialist Party's national executive secretary...
...taken "flight" to British Hongkong with his movable treasures. The exciting question was: Could even smart Chen have moved the enormous weight of $30,000,000 in "small money"? He was said to have moved it in chartered British tramp ships which had displayed the Japanese flag as the emblem most likely to insure them against molestation in Cantonese waters before they made good their getaway to Hongkong...