Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nine children." As he leaves John Gilbert quickly and smoothly appears. He tells a sentimental story of his? mother's wedding night. Presently he is also fast friends with the butler and with the cook to whom he has told a plaintive story of his mother's lack of a wedding night. Driving the Baroness (Olga Baclanova) he wins her confidence too. He gives the maid, Virginia Bruce, a diamond clasp stolen from the Baroness. He answers the Baroness' charges by saying he got it at an address which happens to be that of her lover. He gets the maid...
...guess I'm getting old. . . . Yes?I lack nerve. Flying over the Greenland ice cap this year, ... as I looked down on it, I found myself getting afraid. When I came across there before it didn't bother me a bit." Then Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau rose, clicked his heels, bowed his visitors out, went to sleep while Montreal Teutons waited hopefully to toast him at a midnight supper...
Wolfgang von Gronau, 39, is much less a "flyer," in the romantic sense of the word, than an aerial mariner, stolid, painstaking, plodding. He did not want to become a pilot. His lack of interest in aviation became definite fear when his brother, a War aviator, was shot down and killed. But shortly after that when he was transferred from the navy to the air service, he had to go. At first he tried to deceive his mother by telling her he was to go aboard a Zeppelin, which was supposed to be safer than an airplane. But when...
During the month sugar soared and. with it, cocoa. Metals turned firmer and rubber sold at the best levels since mid-May. Cotton moved in a narrow range but last week there began to be talk of low plant resistance to weevils because of a lack of fertilizer. Cement prices were upped last week for the first time in three years...