Word: guess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young actress (Frances Dee). When, during a penthouse entertainment, a racketeer insults the actress, her aunt immediately kills him. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. shows how quick-witted he is by throwing the racketeer's corpse off the roof. When police find it on the sidewalk, they do not guess about the murder. He is rewarded not by the actress's devotion but by a mean trick such as real colyumists have given the public to understand is particularly likely to occur in Manhattan's theatre district. The actress marries someone else and the colyumist is forced to fall...
...comedy of the type which German Director Ernst Lubitsch has made popular in the U. S., with Sari Maritza, an actress who reached Hollywood before the picture reached Manhattan, in the leading role. Monte Carlo Madness, as anyone who has ever seen a cinema about Monte Carlo should guess, is no glum study of dementia praecox. The legend from which the plot was derived concerns the captain of a destroyer who squandered his payroll at the Casino gaming tables and threatened to shell the town if the money was not returned. When he got it back, he paid his crew...
...brought up an Episcopalian. For myself, I'm certain that I have lived before, that I stored up considerable experience before the present stage, and that I will proceed to the next stage when this is finished. It's all trial-and-error, but based, I guess, on certain fundamentals...
...virtual dictatorship, and the rule of a party which has been steadily declining in prestige, power and numbers since the war, that the foreign observer cannot possibly gage the point where that endurance will end. The refusal of Hitler to take over the government makes plausible the guess that the time is not yet ripe for a violent reaction from the policy of rapprochement with France which was followed by the Bruening regime. It is however, much easier to construe the effect of this move on other nations than on Germany...
...group of pedestrians helter-skelter, bounced off a trolley car, mounted three curbs, dragged a steel traffic cable & stanchions 10 ft., crushed through a newsstand, cracked a subway kiosk, stopped at the head of the subway stairs. Extricating himself uninjured from the wreckage, Chauffeur Jacob Selditch said : "I guess maybe them brakes ought to be tightened...