Word: jeans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...some Iroquois caught some Hurons with two more of their Jesuit friends, gigantic Jean de Brébeuf and frail Gabriel Lalemant. Stripping their captives, they promptly set about pounding them with clubs, searing them with glowing irons, tearing out their fingernails. Father Brébeuf exhorted his comrades to bear up bravely. The Iroquois cut out his tongue. Father Brébeuf's eyes still sparked courage. The Iroquois gouged them out, dropped live coals in the sockets. They draped a red-hot necklace over his head. Then they scalped him, baptized him with boiling water...
...four more Jesuits and two lay companions died martyrs' deaths before the Iroquois began to relent. And never until scholarly, unassuming Michael Jacobs, born Wishe Karhaienton, was ordained, had a full-blooded Mohawk Iroquois donned the black robe which made him a spiritual brother of Isaac Jogues and Jean de Breb?...
...infantile paralysis have been reported in Los Angeles County during the past two months. Only seven deaths occurred during the epidemic which, county authorities believe, has passed its peak. In Hollywood cinema folk closed their private swimming pools when Actress Ida Lupino, and Cameraman Hal Rosson, estranged husband of Jean Harlow, contracted mild cases of the disease...
...Confederate soldier informs Gary Cooper that she is a spy. Then, true to type, he calls her "cheat" and "liar." Even so, Operator 13 remains a sumptuous melodrama, moody, sensational and elegantly trimmed. Good shot: Marion Davies weeping when she learns that the fiance of her Richmond hostess (Jean Parker) has been killed in a surprise attack for which she is responsible...
...Monica (Warner). To the long list of illegitimate children in the cinema this picture adds one more and little else. The brat who causes the trouble is born to Mary Hathaway (Jean Muir). Its father (Warren William) is the husband of Mary's best friend, Dr. Monica (Kay Francis). While attending the mother, Dr. Monica learns of its parentage from Mary Hathaway's hysterical efforts to telephone the father. For a moment, Dr. Monica proposes to disregard the Hippocratic Oath. The arguments of another friend, present as a spectator, induce her to finish the delivery. Small illegitimate Hathaway...