Word: invention
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...series in the cinema, Charlie Chan pictures began in 1931 with Charlie Chan Carries On. Since then Chan has carried on in The Black Camel, Charlie Chan's Change, Charlie Chan's Greatest Case, Charlie Chan's Courage, Charlie Chan in London. No longer bothered to invent new titles, Fox will presently release Charlie Chan in Buenos Aires, Charlie Chan in Morocco. Derived from the Saturday Evening Post stories by the late Earl Derr Diggers, the cinema Chan has exhausted the original supply. Now, though Author Diggers' widow receives a royalty on each, Chan...
...there were not a George Dimitroff in the life of Hermann Wilhelm Göring, it might be necessary to invent one. When Comrade Dimitroff was on trial in the famed Reichstag arson case, Prussian Premier Göring, through whose official residence the fire bugs apparently entered, screamed in open court: "I am not afraid of you, you rascal! You have reason to fear that I'll catch you when you're out of prison! You dirty rascal! You dirty rascal !" This scene Elmer Rice has put into a play (TIME, Sept...
When Carole sights the daughter's husky and handsome fiance (Philip Ober) she loses all interest in her next appearance date. Informed that he likes to tinker with motors and invent things, she breathes, "Ah, just like Einstein." And: "Science is golden...
...retired with a brutally torn thigh seven years ago, the return of the great Juan Belmonte to the arena has been a perennial spring rumor in Spain. Sports writers were always suspicious, knew that even before he was gored Belmonte had such weak legs that he was forced to invent a special technique that made him the darling of the 20 nations that are the Spanish-speaking world. Besides, was he not operating a vast and apparently thriving olive farm and brood ranch in Andalusia...
...opening of Montana School for the Deaf and Blind at Great Falls. Biggest educational problem was what to do about the sign language. Some educators of the deaf (called "oralists") are currently trying to discourage its use. They favor lipreading, say the use of sign language leads children to invent undesirable word pictures, hinders their learning the English language. Sign language adherents say that lipreading is an art which not all can master...