Word: loudnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nbrunn Palace was a mass of swastika flags, and Hitler rode along standing at salute in his car, which never stopped, to the Imperial Hotel, from which all guests had been ejected. "Comrades, Der Führer is with us!" cried the official broadcaster and burst into loud sobs: "Comrades! I-am -un-able-to-continue-speaking- because-of-my-emotion...
Marble Bait. Chairman Morgan's ammunition was an extraordinary set of mineral leases for the exploitation of marble deposits on land flooded by the construction of the Authority's Norris Dam. One of the chief leaseholders is none other than Tennessee's loud, egregious Senator George Leonard Berry, who bought them from farmers in the district for an immediate cash consideration of about $1 apiece. But George Berry has been a potent figure in the Roosevelt Administration and when he filed complaints against the TVA for damages on his marble properties, Directors Morgan and Lilienthal, meeting according...
With the identity of Ravello's Donna Misteriosa (Mysterious Lady) established, the curious throngs around the villa grew larger. When they stopped a village cobbler to get a good look at a size 7½ Garbo shoe, Garbo was angered. That evening, in a voice loud enough to be heard well beyond the villa walls, she ordered the servants to have a doctor handy-"in case anyone is hurt...
...cinema in many a year, Marco Palo proves the contention popularly attributed to the oft-twisted Goldwyn tongue: that verbal promises are seldom worth the paper they are written on. Retired Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks toyed with the idea three years ago, then passed it along to Producer Goldwyn. First loud stunt of the Goldwyn staff was to trumpet an invitation to young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, kidnapper of Chiang Kaishek, to lead Kublai Khan's cohorts. When Producer Goldwyn, who had discovered Actor Cooper over a decade before (The Winning of Barbara Worth), lured him back from Paramount...
...Wash., he found "two handfuls of slimy, muddy substance." Few minutes after he had put this muck near a stove, it came apart, turned out to be six drowsy frogs. He took them home, where during the next two days they gradually sat up and began to hop, croaked loud enough to keep Blaster Jordan & wife awake nights...