Word: lined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like Huey Long the shortening salesman, Lee O'Daniel, flour salesman, has the common touch. He solicits campaign cash in little barrels (passed by smiling Pat, Mike & Molly) labeled "Flour-NOT Pork." As a slogan he uses a line from one of his songs: "Please pass the biscuits, Pappy!" When people interrupt his speeches to ask where Texas will get the money to pay $41,000,000 yearly in old-age pensions, he says to his musicians: "Strike up a tune, boys...
...French Premier Edouard Daladier and hawk-beaked British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Their goal is to win over to the side of Democracy, by means of financial favors, those countries which, impressed by Adolf Hitler's adroit bluffing show of power, last year decided, or almost decided, to line up with Nazi Germany...
Little Tough Guy (Universal) clucks its tongue sympathetically over the bitterness of a boy whose father has been convicted of murder for killing a man while helping a picket line repulse an assault by strikebreakers. But hopelessly quartered and drawn by the tugging of four wayward plot trends, it is less notable as a contribution to cinema than it is for expressing a viewpoint cinema has seldom before ventured-that there is something wrong about strikebreaking...
...scarcely dry on his ruling when three banks (Central Hanover Bank and Trust Co., United States Trust Co. of New York, Old Colony Trust Co.) filed foreclosures on mortgages involving $9,250,000. This week Judge Howe is meeting with "all persons" interested to decide whether to abandon the line...
...corner of the picture, making a thin, sketchy white track which is slightly curved owing to a strong magnetic field maintained across the chamber. Its energy is 10,000,000 electron-volts. It passes through a copper cylinder (left centre) and emerges below, much weaker and making a broader line. Its energy is now only 210,000 volts and so its path is more sharply bent by the magnetic field. After traveling about an inch more (to the right) it comes to a dead stop...