Word: incidental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That incident epitomized the impression of observers watching a nation of peasants struggle with an ambitious commercial & military aviation program. The Russians were better than fair flyers, but they were poor mechanics and executives. They were always forgetting something. But no pilot or other participant forgot anything at the U...
The incident passed and the Chaplin triumph continued with thousands of Japanese cinemaddicts shrilling a welcome at every station. Only last week, when the assassins of Premier Inukai were put on trial, did Cinemactor Chaplin learn with amazement that he too had been marked for Death.
What makes these happenings arresting are those sharp if superficial perceptions of personality which are the salt of Author Stong's books. Before Grandpa Storr speaks a word you find out exactly what sort of person he is by the way he picks up a dish of cold breakfast...
Undeniably Storm at Daybreak, from a play by Sandor Hunyadi, holds together well and the skill of its actors makes its gaudy situations credible. Boleslavsky's version of the Sarajevo incident is probably Hollywood's high to date - if only for the shot of a brass band saluting...
With no settlement in sight and Russo-Japanese feelings tense over the Chinese Eastern Railway, the Kronotsky incident left Russians inflamed. Still more crabbed was Hajime Suritate, head of the Kakumeiso reactionary organization in Tokyo. Brooding the fate of his compatriots on the cape, angry Hajime broke into the office...