Word: haling
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...Cemetery were celebrities buried in its mausoleum, and celebrities who have arranged to be buried there when they die. By error, the name of Actor Guy Bates Post, which should have been the first in the last list, appeared as the last in the first. To Actor Post who, hale and spry, is currently on view in MGM's Maytime, TIME'S sincere apologies...
...rigged up behind his grandmother's house comes in the day of his wedding, spouting a geyser of oil that drenches the wedding party and turns the bride's dress black. What follows is Peter's epic fight with the head of a railroad line (Alan Hale) for control of the new industry. When the railroads boost freight rates to force the farmers to sell out their oil lands, Peter and his friends start a pipe line to the refinery. The railroad's strong-arm gang, headed by Peter's loud-mouthed neighbor, Red Scanlon...
...Forget, Director Mervyn Le Roy uses this situation for the most devastating study of mob violence and sectional hatred the screen has yet dared to present. There are three major suspects in the case of Mary Clay: the school's principal, the Negro janitor and Robert Hale (Edward Norris), a young Northerner who taught Mary's class and who was seen coming out of the building after the crime. To District Attorney Griffin (Claude Rains), the principal is too big a personage and the janitor too small, to serve his purpose of a spectacular conviction. Reporter Bill Brook...
Courtroom scenes are a dramatic standby, but for bleak, malevolent drama, the screen has never achieved a better one than the trial of Robert Hale. It ends, when a string of cowardly witnesses have given their lying testimony, with Attorney Griffin's masterly peroration which the jurors do not need to convince them that Hale is guilty. Aware of the circumstances of the trial, the Governor commutes Hale's sentence of death to life imprisonment, but Flodden's seething population has by this time long since made up its mind how the affair must end. The train...
...General Washington that a battalion of frontiersmen be recruited to fight Indian style. On the grounds that it would look undignified to have white men fighting camouflaged as Indians, Washington refused. Smith, who by this time "entertained no high opinion of the colonel," went back to the frontier. Still hale at 74, the old Indian fighter stormed because he was not allowed to enlist in the War of 1812. Finally he set off alone to join the army at Detroit, turned back only when news of the Americans' easy surrender there convinced him that the army did not amount...