Word: keys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vice President Garner's leather chair on the dais sat the Senate's president pro tern. Nevada's lean, hawk-nosed Key Pittman. Above the general hubbub he cried out: "The point of order is well taken...
...private life, she teaches Sunday School once a week, dislikes siren roles. She is one of the best dressed, most personable actresses in Hollywood. She has no trouble dieting since she dislikes eating. She can drive her Packard but seldom does. Her next picture will be The Glass Key...
Author Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald's title implies that the world his latest stories tell about is cockeyed, arsy-versy. A literary double-lifer, he has concentrated his serious ambition on his few novels, written his many magazine stories simply to make money. Though critics sniff at them, say they sound like thorns crackling under a pot, readers forgive him the pot for the sake of the crackling. Of this collection of 18 stories, all are reprinted from magazines...
...reflection about the contemporary attitude, and later adjustment to the Italian and Russian dictators' policies of building up huge war machines a decade ago. Some cynics, however, particularly in France, think that a punitive war is necessary to forestall danger to their own countries. England holds the key to the whole situation; without her aid other countries will hardly resort to such a drastic and risky measure. Although Hitler has made all the demands so far, the English attitude is yet to be fully formulated and determined. Despite the war scare, it is well to remember that if Hitler does...
...compass-a radio "homing" device which, he thought, might revolutionize long-distance flying over water. It had been used by the late Macon, it had been tested for more than a year by the Army Air Corps and the Department of Commerce. It was, in fact, a key unit in their blind landing systems...