Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...follow up of "Bringing Up Baby" will be surprised to find "Holiday" at Loew's this week concerns an entirely different kind of wild beast from Baby. Here the beast is riches and all the stuffed shirts that go with it, and the whole movie is a fast moving but fairly serious description of the shortcomings of an extremely wealthy society...
...last week when Lord Weir, adviser to the Air Ministry and to the Cabinet Committee of Imperial Defense, resigned both posts. Reason: protest against Prime Minister Chamberlain's ouster of Viscount Swinton as Air Secretary fortnight ago. Lord Swinton was not getting Britain rearmed in the air as fast as the House of Commons thought he should...
...Luis Potosí's General Saturnine Cedillo. Soon 22 agrarians lay dead, 15 wounded and 80 more were being rounded up as prisoners. But defiantly, 75 miles away, a lone Cedillista pilot dropped down out of the bright Mexican sky in one of the General's fast fighting planes, zoomed over the Potosi airfield where President Cardenas had established his headquarters at Vista Hermosa, dumped four ineffective 25-lb. bombs and high-tailed it back to his secret air station in the hills...
...Mighty Sages of the Feature Pages, fast satiric patter by three impersonators of Westbrook Pegler, Walter Lippmann, Boake Carter...
...CAIRO GARTER MURDERS-Van Wyck Mason-Crime Club ($2). Gunrunning and big-scale murders in Cairo (with the murderer putting a lady's garter on each victim's arm) make this most recent story of Captain North's adventures an intelligent, fast-paced thriller...