Word: fording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Margot Grahame) for his failure to support her, Gypo chances to see, in the window of a grimy travel agency, a poster advertising passage to America for ?10. This puts him in mind of another poster advertising ?20 reward for information leading to the capture of Frankie McPhillip (Wallace Ford), who belongs to the Sinn Fein organization from which Gypo has been dismissed for disobedience. Frankie is Gypo's best friend. The ?20 will take Gypo and his Katie out of Ireland. Gypo Nolan's piglike little eyes twinkle as he debates the issue thus presented with himself...
Director John Ford has two salient qualities-a sharp objective style and the ability to make Victor McLaglen (usually cast as an awkward stooge for Edmund Lowe) reveal his formidable talents as an actor. Both were brilliantly displayed last year in The Lost Patrol. In The Informer, they become more noteworthy than ever in a picture that no sensible cinemaddict will want to miss. Good shot: Gypo giving a beggar a pound note, after making sure that he is blind...
Hero of U. S. air transport from infancy to maturity was the trimotored Ford. Today fast low-wing Boeings, Douglases and Lockheeds have displaced the "Tin Goose" on most U. S. airlines, and many of the 200-odd Ford tri-motors have gone to South America. Of all the "Tin Geese," none was more familiar to U. S. citizens than the one which for five years has been displayed in the concourse of Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station...
...Sophomores appointed were: Thomas Herbert Bilodeau, John Bradford Bowditch, Emile Dubiel, George Steven Ford Hamilton Hadden, Jr., James Brewster Hallett, George Gordon Hedblom, Charles Wells Hubbard, III, Anthony Joseph Drexel Paul, Jr., Charles Moorfield Storey, Jr., Robert Blake Watson, and William John Watt...
...list of patronesses for the occasion tomorrow night was announced yesterday, as follows: Professor and Mrs. Jeremiah D. M. Ford, Professor and Mrs. Clarence H. Haring, Professor and Mrs. Andre Morize, Professor and Mrs. Arthur F. Whittem, Colonel and Mrs. Oliver L. Spaulding, Professor and Mrs. Louis J. A. Mercier, Professor Guillermo Rivera, Professor Frederick C. Packard, Jr., Mrs. Daniel H. Marsh, and Mrs. Reid Hunt...