Word: flamingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Censors refused to give the picture a license. Thereupon Paramount officials in Manhattan sent the film back to Hollywood for a new title and other changes. When Belle of-New Orleans was proposed New Orleans civic organizations spluttered vehement objection. It was subsequently called St. Louis Woman, My Old Flame and several other things before Paramount chose Belle of the Nineties. Only two major changes-a hasty and unconvincing marriage at the conclusion and the removal of a sequence showing Mae West and John Miljan preparing to retire-were made before Censor Joseph Breen saw and approved the picture last...
...policeman, trampled by strikers, fired from the ground. At Bridgeport, Pa., strikers forced entrance to a mill, broke a woman's leg. At Greenville, S. C. one man and four women were clubbed, kicked and mauled in scrimmages with deputies. At Fall River, Mass., Radical Ann Burlak. "The Red Flame,'' was forbidden to hold a meeting. In New Bedford, Mass. 3,000 pickets attacked the main gate of the Firestone Tire Fabric plant, showered windows with stones, forced 600 workers to retreat into the mill for safety. At Trion, Ga. a deputy sheriff and a non-union man were killed...
...Clear the air!'' Then CQ "Attention, please!" Then "All stations please stand by!" Meanwhile the operator in a little stucco Radio Marine Station at Tuckerton, N. J. had relayed a query from a ship in the Morro Castle's neighborhood: "Was a nearby ship afire?" A pillar of flame could be seen. But it was not until 3:25 that Alagna could fight his way back through the flames with authority from Captain Warms, desperate on the bridge, to send out the dread SOS. "Di-di-di-da-da-da-di-di-di! The flames are under the radio room...
China has never won a modern war, but two years ago in the smoke and flame and searing Hell of Japan's avalanche against Shanghai she whelped a towering hero, General Tsai Ting-kai of the deathless 19th Route Army (TIME, Feb. 22, 1932). Last week on the Olympic he steamed into Manhattan and Chinatown went wild. Rich merchants had hired a suite for their hero at the tall-towered Waldorf-Astoria. They sent three planes with Chinese pilots roaring down the bay to dip and zoom in welcome. As the Olympic drew in, 4,000 jubilant celestials jammed...
...seat, his foul breath caused others to jerk their heads away. He pretended not to notice, put a cigaret between his lips. Just as he brought the lighted match, carefully cupped in his hands, up to the cigaret, he emitted a mighty belch. There was a sudden flash of flame, a rumbling "poom," a smell of singed hair. The cigaret was projected by the explosion over three rows of seats. "In pain and confusion," declared the Lancet, British medical weekly, in reporting the case of this fiery belcher this month, "he had hurriedly to leave the cinema...