Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...various characters make up a strange, stagnant society, in which the main character, Jack Stephens, finds himself. The bigotry of this society is typified by Jack's Aunt Matilda, who rules him with a hickory whip. As a child, Jack is gifted with an imagination and questioning power which disturbs his own aunt and the whole community. He forms all kinds of ideas, many of which are true to him although denounced as lies by his aunt. She teaches him that it is wicked to tell any lies (even though they are true). As an adolescent he is beset...
...these bookish detectives is tall, goggled Scenarist Harry Kurnitz, longtime mystery writer for pulp magazines, who writes under the false-whiskery pen name of Marco Page and the influence of Dashiell Hammett. His characters first appeared last spring in a spade-calling mystery novel, Fast Company, in which the main victim was poetically conked with a bust of Dante. Last summer Melvyn Douglas and Florence Rice played them first for cinema in MGM's fumigated version. In Fast and Loose, Robert Montgomery and Rosalind Russell show up as the likeliest pretenders to the places of William Powell and Myrna...
...freight engine crew scrambled from the cab when a steam pipe burst. With brakes somehow released, the locomotive backed into a string of cars and with reverse lever swung forward by the impact, reversed its direction. Passing its appalled engineer and fireman it swung out on to the main line, picked up a grain car ahead of it and disappeared into the mist. Up the main line at 50 m.p.h. whipped No. 34, Great Western's night Omaha-Minneapolis passenger train. Four miles south of Tennant with its headlight shrouded by the grain car the runaway crashed into...
Quietly, persistently, depositors appeared at the bank's main office and five branches, demanded their money. In three days the bank dished out $2,179,280. N. J. Title Guarantee & Trust still had over a million in cash on hand, but it did not open for business again. With $21,500,000 in deposits still on its books, it was the biggest bank failure in five years. Reason: under Boss Frank Hague, Jersey City's tax rate on real estate is the highest in the U. S. and the bank's assets were frozen with...
...main troubles with America, she finds, is that everything from cigarettes to perfume comes wrapped in cellophane, and to dig any article from this casing is nearly impossible...