Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Later a gallon of weak wine was found. State's Attorney Carbary charged the De King home was a speakeasy. De King, recovering, claimed that he had given the State Dry agents a few drinks...
Last week the first conclusions of several investigations were made public. In a 70-page report Manager Richard Aldworth of Newark Airport stated (in brief): All engines (Wrights) functioned normally on previous flights and on this takeoff. One engine failed shortly after the takeoff. Another may have failed later. The pilot was convinced that his plane was overloaded, ? He was not sufficiently familiar with the area in the immediate vicinity of the neighborhood. He paid insufficient attention to the direction and velocity of the wind. From the first period after the engine failure, he probably had decided...
...make-up and photographed from all angles, mostly in closeup. Director Carl Theodore Dreyer, a Dane, is not concerned with history, except that he uses accurately and intelligently such evidence as the 15th Century has left him about the girl who saved her country from its enemies, and was later tortured to death by the Church. Somehow Dreyer found a woman, Mile. Falconetti, whose face was what he looked for, and whose talent directed as well as fulfilled his own "directing...
...seem dry; thin lines mark her forehead, her rough hair, cut short, fits her head like a wooden cap. She is ugly, but her eyes are beautiful, and as her thought makes changes in her face she too becomes beautiful. At first, she seems paralyzed with amazement and terror; later, from some unexplained emotion, she weeps", and through the trial big tears run down her tanned face. Her answers in the subtitles are the same that were given by the real Joan according to the record of the ecclesiastical trial at Rouen preserved in the Library of the Chamber...
...possible. With a similar objective, but with greater success, he has recently expanded with purchase after purchase his enormous business organization. Born in Tulchva, Hungary, in 1879, he came, a small boy, to Manhattan's East Side, there peddled shoe polish which his father made over the family stove. Later, he sponged pants, coats in a Manhattan tailoring shop. Still later he cut out cloak and suit patterns for $17 a week. Twenty-five years ago, when feature pictures were 500 feet long, Cineman Fox opened, in Brooklyn, his first theatre. Nobody came to see the show, so finally...