Word: gale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...GALE THOMAS...
...oarsmen are scheduled to descend upon Gale's Ferry tomorrow. For the first time on record, the crew will have all their examinations behind them when they start for the Thames. In former years they have taken the exams at Gales Ferry between practice sprints on the river. As a result all the crews since May 19 have been able to row only three days a week, and they have been slowed up quite evidently by the respite...
...dialog is bookish, lifeless, unconvincing. But he has a knack of conveying a sense of horror ; in one Invitation to a Murder scene a rich and powerful California lady lies in a deathlike trance, shrouded, while the grisly organ music of her funeral fills her mansion. Lorinda Channing (Gale Sondergaard) feigns death with the aid of a struggling physician (Walter Abel) to trap a relative who has been trying to poison her. Returning from the tomb, she personally executes her would-be assassin, neatly shifts the blame to another. Between waves of goose-pimples, audiences have spells of apprehension lest...
...President imposed his fifth, sixth and seventh vetoes on bills: 1) to grant an honorable discharge from the U. S. Navy to John Thomas Simpkin, twice convicted of overstaying leaves of absence; 2) to grant a year's pay ($8,000) to the widow of William Holt Gale, a foreign service officer; 3) to allow the Turtle Mountain band of Chippewa Indians to sue the Government for claims which they renounced for consideration of $1,000,000 in a treaty made 30 years...
...currents, hammered by icebergs, has begun piling in on itself. It heaved the camp kitchen into splinters, erupted the surface of the improvised landing field. A loose block of ice nudged the pack's edge, smashed Professor Schmidt's motorboat. The hardy professor worked overtime in a gale to keep his precarious village functioning. Last week he was running a fever, saying nothing about it, when the weather cleared and Soviet rescue planes got through. They were flown by Pilots Molokov, Slepnev and Kamanin. The professor loaded his weakest villagers aboard. Molokov could squeeze only three...