Word: hell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About dawn the landlady jumped up in bed as a volley of shots rattled the window panes. Feet thudded down the stairway. A voice cried: "Hell, that's enough -come on." The front door slammed. From a window the landlady saw two men disappear inside a maroon sedan, watched ihe car slip away in the half-light. Then she called the speakeasy. When police arrived an hour later, they found a group of gaping lodgers standing around the room in their nightclothes. Diamond's doctor shifted from foot to foot. A redhaired, wild-eyed woman was mopping blood...
...Safe in Hell (First National) is routine death-before-dishonor melodrama except that in most such cases it is considered against the rules for either death or dishonor, no matter how imminent they may be, actually to occur. This time a streetwalker has escaped from New Orleans to an unnamed island to avoid the legal penalty for a murder which she thinks she has committed. She (Dorothy Mackaill), finds herself in a quandary. She can either accept the attentions of a greasy jail-warden, or allow him to give evidence that will cause her to be killed before her husband...
Here the authors put in what the producers perhaps thought was a touch original enough to warrant a $300,000 investment. The husband is unable to solve the situation. He goes back to his ship, leaving Dorothy Mackaill to select her own alternative. Safe in Hell is crude, trite, sporadically exciting...
Oldtime theologians thought of hell in terms of fire and brimstone-volcanic heat coming from inside the earth, whose core is probably no hotter than 1,500° C. Modern electrical engineers can produce steady temperatures of 2,000° C. in furnaces for the steel industry, and fortnight ago Chemist Robert Browning Sosman of U. S. Steel Corp. announced that with a heliostat and focusing mirror he had been able to capture 3,000° of the sun's heat (TIME, Dec. 21). With gas, temperatures as high as 4,600° have been obtained, but they could...
...Hell & Maria! I would have paid horse prices for sheep if the sheep could have pulled artillery to the front...