Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time when Yankee imperialism shows a desire to dominate Europe, the Ethnical Defense League is seeking to interest Europeans in our unhappy fate and has already obtained the support of a number of German deputies and also strong British support, including that of David Lloyd George...
...play could have been more than a preliminary outline. Cavalcade, which is essentially the history of one English family, becomes, by implication, a history, almost a definition, of England. Against its spacious background, the subsidiary stories in Cavalcade have a sharp and eloquent perspective which Director Frank Lloyd emphasized by using, not the fulsome rhetoric with which the cinema usually attempts the epic manner, but a sort of cinematic shorthand. The significance to England of Queen Victoria's death becomes apparent from an incident in the Marryots' kitchen; a shot of a life-preserver-lettered S. S. Titanic...
...power dam which represents the one opened at Dnieprostroy last autumn. A rivalry arises between the two men in which the Russian, at first thoroughly worsted, struggles to catch up. His efforts, less heroic than amusing, in one sequence produce the kind of comic suspense on which early Harold Lloyd pictures were constructed. The mechanic in charge of a steam crane gets drunk. The Russian foreman orders him out of the cab and climbs in himself. With very little knowledge of how the contraption will react, he begins to pull its levers, manages, by the skin of his teeth...
...later lifting other people's travelers' checks, Mike told his many barroom friends that he had arrived on the Euro pa, stowage (TIME, Jan. 2). But the Government's case against him for illegal entry on the Europa began to fade when the North German Lloyd line maintained that Mike cauld not have come into the country on their boat. Mike soon agreed, said he had entered via Canada. Secondary plan of the Government was to deport Mike as an alien, born in Vilna, Russia. But earliest available records of his genesis place him in a Manhattan...
...stricken with malaria and had to quit after the first six months. Three or four years later he resumed work as editorial writer, wrote regularly for the next 40 years until Editor Norman Hume Anthony, now of Ballyhoo, took the editorship of Life in 1929 for a brief tenure. Lloyd George had called E. S. Martin "the greatest editorial writer using the English language today"; Anthony threw out the Martin editorials because they were "lousy." The Martin editorials have been resumed since then and E. S. Martin should reinstate reference to Life in his 25-line biography...