Word: erful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hand, received too little footage in his previous pictures should be delighted by Old Hutch. It contains practically nothing else. Adapted by George Kelly from a Garret Smith story unearthed from the Saturday Evening Post files for February 1920, it shows what happens to a smalltown ne'er-do-well when he comes on a robber's cache of $100,000. Climax of his subsequent regeneration arrives, as anticipated, when the $100,000 disappears...
...Just as my statue towers above the sons of earth, so shall the district from whose breast the ore and coal were torn and fused to give me birth, exceed all others in time's march. For o'er and o'er nature hath flung her treasures with a generous hand and Birmingham sits enthroned. Both hemispheres can draw on her; the mineral wealth of every land is there allied to rule the world in future years...
...buttonhole and accompanied by a guard carrying $5,000 in cash-Mr. Bowers was there to receive them with new instructions: Mr. Gerard had called his bets off. Said Partner Bowers: "You know how it is. A man in the heat of enthusiasm will often say something- well-er-ill-advised. Mr. Gerard undoubtedly feels as always about Roosevelt and would have made the bet, but he can't afford to lose his vote. As a lawyer he shouldn't have forgotten the law, but the human mind is fallible." Far from downcast were Messrs. Greene and Cannon...
...Well, as, a -er-matter of fact," blushed bulbous Sir Thomas, "I haven't! But I shall take the matter up with the chiefs of staff at the earliest possible...
Last week, day before the Senate elections, King Farouk sailed into Alexandria harbor on the British liner Viceroy of India. In Cairo the young King knelt before the tomb of his father in the Mosque of Er-Rifái, met Queen Mother Nazli and his four sisters at Abdin Palace. His work was ended when he recognized as his heir his first cousin, 61-year-old Prince Mohammed Ali, son of his father's eldest brother and his father's nominee for president of the Council of Regents to replace a nominee who had died...