Word: hards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best showmen in the House of Commons, had the M.P.s rolling in the aisles when he twitted the 69-year-old Prime Minister about his age and lack of courage. Of Mr. Chamberlain and French Premier Daladier at Munich, Lloyd George declared: "They both ran away as hard as they could from their obligations, but our Prime Minister, in spite of his more advanced years, kept well ahead. What a magnificent old sprinter he is!" Conservative Party whips got busy and the "no confidence" motion was beaten off by the usual 340-to-143 vote...
...towns to break Red morale. Second Officer Mechanic André Marty persuaded his fellow sailors to refuse to bombard defenseless citizens, threw his superiors in the brig, hoisted a red flag in sympathy with those on shore. For his mutiny André Marty was sentenced to 20 years at hard labor, of which he served three...
Dawn Patrol (Warner Bros.). Fortunately for cinemaddicts, as Hollywood finds it increasingly hard to say new things, it says the old ones increasingly well. This picture certainly gives no new account of the Royal Flying Corps. Its members fly "canvas coffins," drink "to the next man to die," and grimly say "Right!" when they mean "Wrong!" just as they have been doing in the movies ever since the first Dawn Patrol was made eight years ago. Nonetheless, by the time Captain Courtney (Errol Flynn) and Lieutenant Scott (David Niven) have shared their last toast and their last battle, audiences...
...Beachcomber (Paramount) contains the most unusual cinema hero of the year. Shiftless, insolent, concupiscent Ginger Ted (Charles Laughton) makes himself a nuisance to the kindhearted controleur of the tropical Dutch island where he lives in a disreputable beach shack. He also takes pleasure in insulting a hard-working British female missionary (Elsa Lanchester*) who tries to save his soul...
...Kickapoo, sent Sachen home to his digging. Vermifuges are fine for dogs, they said, but the drugs they contain will not cure anemia and epilepsy. They doubted that Mylon had swallowed the marbles, or if he had, that they had remained in his stomach for five years. Small, hard objects are usually passed off within a day or two, explained patient Dr. Donnelly, as she ordered another bottle of slow, safe iron compound for still anemic Mylon...