Word: facing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Poncet of the Ministry of Fine Arts and Harold L. Smith of Will Hays's Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc. To the chief of the French Cinema Trust (Chambre Syndicale), industrious, scheming Jean Sapene, the peace was as distasteful as a hurtling Hollywood pie-in-the-face...
...distinctly inferior products of the French Cinema Trust. Last week's truce was no sooner signed than representatives of all the big French exhibitors rushed to make new U. S. bookings, showed by enthusiastic comments that they are gladdest of all that Cineman Sapene got a pie-in-the-face...
...operating expenses of most of the air mail carriers. But not all the expenses. Said Universal Air Lines' Halsey Dunwoody, referring to this financial situation: "We cannot continue to pay operating expenses from capital reserve. In order to produce dividends, air transport lines must pay. We operators face certain definite needs which may be enumerated as public confidence, increased patronage, constantly improving service and better practical organization...
...Indians and French Canadians set out to search northern Quebec ? a half-explored tract of forest land larger than all New England ? for Réné and Michel Courtois. Three weeks ago they found them 95 miles north of Roberval. Thirteen-year-old Michel, his hair matted, his face aged and seamed from privation, crouched over an iron bucket in which he had kept a fire burning for two months. Nineteen-year-old Réné, dead since July, lay beside him, a moldering skeleton...
...shouted in alarm, women and children screamed. The glass top of the coffin was smashed in. Inside lay the false Blackamon, dead, his hands and face horribly gashed by broken glass. Losing his nerve in the midst of his performance, he had evidently, vainly, fought to free himself from being smothered alive...