Word: forward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rightist General Miguel Aranda, commanding the mud-sodden, zigzag line from Teruel to the Mediterranean, issued a "Fight, rain or no rain!" order but Rightist troops inched forward only five miles to take the town of Portell before being halted...
...pressed the radio time rate inquiry, and since he is not willing to make accusations against a radio monopoly until one is proved, there is a likelihood that Mr. McNinch will at any rate oppose the bill's domestic broadcasting provision. Hopefully the industry looks forward to Mr. McNinch's stringing along with Commissioner Case in the belief that "we had better hold on to what we have until we get something better," that U. S. broadcasting in its present state is worth holding on to and that the industry and the Commission had better go ahead together...
...Long Islanders with Captain Conners, All-Metropolitan star, and Ralph Pierce, high scoring forward, are reported to be bringing a strong team to Cambridge...
Mussolini comes in for the lion's share of the ribbing. First he is shown awarding the Victor Emmanuel Fertility Cup and other similar awards to a group of buxom mass-production mothers, after which public enemy number one comes forward to bewail the fact in a variety of ingenious ways that she can produce only one at a time. Il Duce appears again, as one of the "Four Little Angels of Peace," the others being Hitler, Chamberlain, and an anonymous Jap. They all demonstrate their benevolence by treacherously and amusingly destroying one another. There is a denunciation...
...cinemerry-andrews, is a tittery tuning-up of 0. Henry's fable, The Badge of Policeman O'Roon. At its best when Comedian Crosby is singing his two hit songs, On the Sentimental Side and My Heart Is Taking Lessons, it also puts a good foot forward with a breathless gypsy dance. But whether Actress Lillie's brand of humor is obvious enough for cinema tastes is an open question which Doctor Rhythm leaves still unanswered...