Word: guys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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MAUPASSANT (Guy de) Doctor Heraclius Gloss. First...
Next morning the Beefeaters, carrying their halberds and an oil lantern, explored the electrically lighted cellars of the Palace of Westminster in which sit the Lords & Commons. In the year 1605 such exploration resulted in the finding of enough gunpowder, concealed in the cellars by Guy Fawkes & friends, to have blown up Parliament. Last week the Beefeaters found nothing, as they have for 327 consecutive years, reported "All's well...
...railroad management can legally or morally divest itself of ultimate freedom of action," explained the committee of western railroad presidents last week in announcing, after months of deliberation, the choice of a supervising "commissioner." He will be Harry Guy Taylor, 52, publicist with American Railway Association, No tsar, he will arbitrate on rate and schedule questions, will never initiate action, will have no power to enforce his decisions...
Stolen from Columbia University Oct. 24 was the manuscript of Vol. II of Sir Walter Scott's Guy Mannering, lent for exhibition by its owner John Pierpont Morgan...
Commendable in purpose, workmanlike in execution, The Conquerors suffers mainly from delusions of grandeur. The first part of the picture is charming. Ann Harding manages to disguise with gayety that virulent nobility which often injures her characterizations. Guy Kibbee and Edna May Oliver contribute expert characterizations, she as the proprietress of a dilapidated hotel, he as her husband, an inebriate doctor who manages to be grandiloquent even when he chooses to sleep in a gutter. Later a certain galloping becomes evident in the tread of The Conquerors. It is held together mainly by the rhythm of coincidence and double exposures...