Word: fogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brisk to the point of confession, Fog Over Frisco is not the best of Director William Dieterle's pictures. Typical shot: Bette Davis begging her anxious fiance to tolerate just one more swindle...
...Fog Over Frisco (First National). By the time a newshawk and a cameraman discover the body in a rumble seat, enough has happened in this picture to suggest many a motive for murder. Arlene Bradford (Bette Davis) is a moody socialite, addicted to thievery for fun. Daughter of a banker (Arthur Byron) whom she dislikes, she consorts with underworldlings, gets her name in gossip columns, disposes of stolen bonds through her fiance and the Honolulu manager of her father's business. When Banker Bradford becomes suspicious and recalls his manager from Honolulu, there are altercations in a speakeasy...
...President Roosevelt been two hours late he would not have delayed the ceremonies. Off Staten Island fog closed in. The Indianapolis dropped anchor, whistled for a wind to blow the dank pall away. Ultimately the whistling had its effect. After noon the four-starred cruiser reached the reviewing grounds two mi. south of Ambrose Lightship, followed by the Louis-mile bearing lesser lights of the Government. Out of the distant haze emerged the battleship Pennsylvania, flagship of the Fleet, with the clean, high silhouets of airplane carriers Saratoga and Lexington behind...
...Bleriot, was named Joseph LeBrix after the famed French flyer who crashed to death in Russia three years ago. To spur them on the French Government offered a prize of one million francs ($66,000). Prevailing tailwinds sped them safely over the North Atlantic. Above Newfoundland they ran into fog and motor trouble. At Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field, 2,600 mi. short of their goal, they landed, having flown 3,600 mi. in 38 hr. 27 min. 11 hr. 10 min. slower than Coste & Bellonte). A great thing done twice loses much of its public appeal. But France...
...difficult ... to predict the propulsion of airplanes by radiated energy with the power plants located on the ground. Nor is it difficult to envision the entire system of aerial transportation . . . unaffected by fog and weather conditions. Most of this work is being studied today under the name of photosynthesis-that is, how plants grow.-Charles Franklin Kettering, General Motors' researching vice president. ¶ It is reasonable to suppose that we shall soon find some knowledge regarding the ancient history of the universe. Has it been in operation forever, or did it start at some more or less definite time...