Word: icebergs
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...Eton & Woolwich), preferring U. S. advisers, the King of Siam nevertheless transacts the business of his realm at Bangkok in an Italian setting. Like Dictator Benito Mussolini, this mighty little monarch has as his workroom a vast white marble hall, pure Renaissance in style, alien to Siam as an iceberg, but dramatic, breathtaking...
...suffers from the flowery dialog and annoying deliberation peculiar to most British films. Like The Deluge, Journey's End and Submarine, it shows how a group of people behave when they are facing death. This time the setting is a trans-Atlantic liner which sinks after hitting an iceberg. If the producers had used some of the stories that have been current for two decades about the crash of the Titanic, or even if they had used the Titanic's passenger list as a basis for their cast, results would have been better. Unfortunately the tremendous and simple...
...Superstitious Britons last week lamented that the R-101 had often been referred to in the press as "Titanic of the Air." The White Star Line's S. S. Titanic rammed an iceberg and sank with 1,513 souls on her maiden voyage in April...
Married. Robert W. Daniel, president of Liberty National Bank in New York (Manhattan), and Mrs. Charlotte Bemiss Christian, niece of the late John Skelton Williams, onetime (1914-21) Comptroller of the Currency; at Richmond, Va. When the Titanic rammed an iceberg and sank in 1913, he rescued and later married Mrs. Lucien P. Smith, wife of onetime Representative Smith of West Virginia, who drowned in the disaster...
...Loree or any other reputable railroader is entirely in order when he devises a plan for railroad consolidation. Nothing in the fast-moving U. S. has so dawdled and daggled as rail road consolidation -except possibly Prohibition enforcement. The I. C. C. has moved with the sloth of an iceberg. It now promises to come out soon with the basis of a plan. For years the public has been bored with dozens of plans mostly quite unoriginal...