Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outside withheld judgment on TBS's prospects until they could find out: 1) whether TBS could get wire lines; 2) whether the business it had lined up would warrant an annual outlay of $800,000 to $1,000,000 for lines; 3) whether it could keep enough important stations in line to survive. Lacking the straight dope on these points, they called it a "ghost-to-ghost" network...
...churches, Armistice Day has been an occasion for thoughts of peace, for high resolve to keep out of wars. Last week the Federal Council of Churches issued a special 1939 Armistice Day request: let all its 131,043 constituent and cooperating churches in the U. S. set their bells a-tolling at 11:02 a.m. Object: "A protest against war . . . a prayer for peace." As amen, the North American Guild of Carillonneurs promised that all 50-odd U. S. carillons would also tintinnabulate...
...Private Lives of Elizabeth andEssex (Warner Bros.) demonstrates the wear & tear on royal nerves when an aging, amorous Queen falls in love with a vain, personable young nobleman whose head she must cut off if she wants to keep her throne. It also demonstrates that Cinemactor Errol Flynn is prettier than Cinemactress Bette Davis, but not such a good actor...
...Year (20th Century-Fox). Fainthearts who swoon on Ferris wheels and feel dizzy when an elevator drops should keep away from this power dive into the problems of training college boys to be airmen. With the nonchalance of a parachute jumper, the picture unfolds the suggestion that if 20,000 young aviators are to be trained yearly, there will be thrills for both students and instructors. 20,000 Men A Year shows most of the thrills...
...Fight? We shall wipe you off the face of the earth!" He turns defiantly to them all: "I shall sweep through Poland like a hurricane." "Do so by all means, Comrade," coos the Commissar. "When you have finished, you will settle with me how much of it you may keep...