Word: gorgeous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Metropolitan: The latest DeMille collossus, remarkably well cast, complete with 500--count 'om 500--beautiful ladies, and all the gorgeous panorama of Roman and Egyptian life portrayed with the usual DeMille facility, makes this picture well worth a trip into Boston, even if the novel vaudeville and well-chosen shorts at the Met were omitted, which they...
Last week Kohler was ablaze with gorgeous hollyhocks and its first serious labor trouble. Upwards of 1,000 pickets, holding their line with a stout rope, marched up & down before the main entrance of the Kohler plant. Within 200 nonstriking employes were kept prisoner. No one was allowed to enter, no one to leave-except Mr. Kohler of Kohler. He drove up in one of his four Lincolns. strode, white-faced and grim-jawed, to the picket line, boldly lifted the pickets' rope and went in to a chorus of jeers...
...Brussels who argued the Germans into sentencing her to life imprisonment instead of setting her before a firing squad. When Germany was beaten she went free and France gave her the Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honor. To perform her marriage last week up rose in the gorgeous robes of a Prince of the Church, Jean Cardinal Verdier, Archbishop of Paris...
Sirens screeched and an open motorcar swept up with Adolf Hitler. In simple khaki the little Chancellor entered with enormous Speaker Göring, gorgeous in his self-designed uniform as a General of Aviation (see p. 16). Deputies bellowed "Heil Hitler!" General Göring banged his bell, and then there was a long wait while the Chancellor fussed with his papers before he took the rostrum. When he spoke his voice at first lacked its usual barking force. "Deputies, men of the Reichstag," he husked, "by order of the Reich Government, the Reichstag's President Göring called you together...
...journey sped him up the Black Sea on a spruce Turkish battle cruiser to Istanbul, then by train to the Turkish capital. Near Easterners quivered with excitement at palavers scheduled for this week, as the two swarthy strong men gripped hands in Ankara, the King of Kings gorgeous in a Persian uniform blazing with jeweled orders. Dictator Kemal sleek-tailed in a Paris cutaway...