Word: handed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strength of this strange tale of Dr. Vidal, the Spanish Government last week asked France to hand over Colonel Lister. French authorities said they would have to decide whether Colonel Lister's alleged act was political or criminal. They were also reported to be pondering whether to exchange Colonel Lister for a French Communist Deputy who had been imprisoned at Alicante. If France either extradites or exchanges Colonel Lister, it was taken for granted that the Loyalist hero's next last-ditch stand would be before a firing squad...
Before making the picture, Producer Goldwyn, a stickler for detail, landscaped 540 California acres into a Yorkshire moor. He imported eight British actors, a dialect expert to see that their accents matched, 1,000 panes of hand-blown glass for interior shots and 1,000 heather plants for outdoors. He did not attempt to send for Emily Bronte. In spite of this oversight, there is not much she could have done to improve this screen translation of her masterpiece...
Slim, weatherbeaten Shannon Davidson was the first rider to reach San Francisco. At a pipsqueak reception on Treasure Island he collected the only prize, $750, and headed for home. Day or two later other contestants began to clatter in. One ranch hand, lost, tethered his horse in front of the San Francisco Stock Exchange. All were stony broke...
Most ringing speech made to the consumer educators was by Harold S. Sloan (brother of General Motors' Alfred P. and head of the Sloan Foundation). He declared that Stephens taught consumers to practice "economic statesmanship" by reminding them that each time a consumer chooses between a hand-made and a machine-made product, between American and foreign goods, he casts a vote for a particular kind of economic system...
...view of 20 miles spoiled by tradition." Once, after he strained his shoulder chopping, a doctor arrived to find him standing in his living room clad only in khaki pants and moccasins, with green birch lice hopping playfully about his chest. He still held the ax in one hand; in the other, a book on philosophy which he was reading...