Word: gigged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris last week President C. J. Gignoux of the French Employers' Association was taunted with cries of "Gig-noux to the gallows!" In the Chamber soon afterward Premier Chautemps, who had been having trouble with both Capital's Gignoux and Leon Jouhaux, leader of some 5,000,000 French trade unionists, was denounced by Comrade Arthur Ramette, Communist leader. "If you want your liberty,-I will give it to you!" cried the Premier, weary after weeks of strife. "I will not let the Communists spit in my face...
...alive, recovered bit by bit stores and cargo-burying the latter deep in the coral sand. But their thankfulness turned to horror as the most intensive search produced no fresh water. Deciding to leave this dread, lonesome spot, they labored for three weeks to repair & supply longboat and gig salvaged from the wreck. Twenty-two set out in the 22-ft. boat; eight went with Captain Tobias in his even smaller gig. Overcrowded from the start there was scant room for the severely rationed water and food. To the south lay cannibals of the Marshall group of islands; westward...
Four years ago a passer-by along the shores of the New Jersey's Raritan River would have seen two crews racing down the Herley course against each other. One boat was a second hand gig lent by Lawrenceville Preparatory School for the occasion, and the other a similar purchased boat from Princeton. In the boats were the first and second crews of Rutgers University...
...contract. Within 18 months Comrade Orlov may set himself the gigantic task of making order out of a series of shipments that will include everything from turrets, barbettes, gears, pistons, armor plates, electric hoists, turbines, boilers, stanchions, steampipes, searchlights, smokestacks to a davit for the Captain's gig...
...angle because he wasn't tough enough. Elsewhere it moves with the pace characteristic of polished direction and capable acting. The scene of Bartholomew picking a fight with big Jackie Cooper is well done; also the touching shot of the boys attempting to buy a $500 tombstone for "Gig's" (Mickey Rooney's) father. In general the picture will satisfy the indifferent moviegoer...