Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...liaison officer on the Near Eastern Front. In the retreat of the Turks and Germans from Palestine he again left behind some valuable papers which fell into British hands. They, too, showed payments to U. S. agents. London was cabled for instructions. Legend has it that London replied: "Forward papers. If von Papen is captured do not intern; send him to a lunatic asylum...
Last week fate struck back at the two-ton wife-killer. Children were tossing peanuts across the moat to Bill. Reaching for a weakly-tossed one, Bill greedily leaned forward, teetered, landed pomph on the concrete floor of the moat...
...fourth French liner to be destroyed by fire in seven years. While the Sûreté Nationale appealed for the author of the anonymous note to come forward, Mobile Guards were put on the big Normandie, just ready to leave dry dock near by. The masts had to be sawed off the Paris before the Normandie could be taken out to her dock. This week, while the Paris' passengers (and also Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh and two sons) were on the way to the U. S. on the Champlain the Sûreté had another mystery dumped...
...film an unfair advantage over sentimental audiences, and Actress Davis plucks every heartstring she can lay a finger on, under Edmund Goulding's delicate, direction she makes Dark Victory moving but not morbid. The picture allows pretty, able newcomer Geraldine Fitzgerald (Wuthering Heights) to put a shapely foot forward, gives Humphrey Bogart, as an Irish groom who loves Judith for her breeding, a chance to act without a gun up his sleeve. Memorable sequence: Judith trying to put her horse over a jump on a morning when her hangover is worse than usual...
Inaugurated three years ago as "an important forward step in legal education," and backed by Supreme Court Jestice William O. Douglas, a joint course coordinating studies at Yale Law School and Harvard's School of Business Administration will be discontinued next year...