Word: mell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last stands of history, Travis and his men held the Alamo against Santa Anna's overwhelming force until every one of them, and 500 Mexicans, were dead. The Mexicans marched on, captured Fannin's contingent, massacred them to a man. At that most settlers began scrambling pell-mell to the north in the famed "Runaway Scrape," But the blood of 800 of them was up now, and when Sam Houston yelled, "Remember the Alamo!" they rallied to him. Outside the present city of Houston, near where Buffalo Bayou meets the San Jacinto River, they took Santa Anna...
Intentis was agere pell-mell...
...Addis Ababa the receipt by a U. S. cameraman of a jocular cablegram from his home office, "Presume Addis next; suggest you pick out shelter now," leaked out to cause virtual panic as thousands of natives grabbed their rifles and bolted pell-mell out of the Capital, thinking it was about to be bombed...
...their pell-mell way to join the New Deal in the spring of 1933, the professors of the Brain Trust might have noticed one of their former colleagues proceeding in the opposite direction. The tall, bald, rangy gentleman with the glum expression was William Marion Jardine, who had deserted his books to be Coolidge Secretary of Agriculture and Hoover Minister to Egypt. After a brief stay in the Kansas State Treasurer's office, Republican Jardine was offered and accepted the presidency of the Municipal University of Wichita. (Enrollment...
Thanks a Million. To get Dick Powell for the lead in this topical, pell-mell musical cinema. Producer Zanuck traded Fredric March to Warner Bros, for Anthony Adverse. A troupe of entertainers, stuck in a small town on a rainy night, strangle into a political rally to get dry and become part of the election machinery when Troupe Manager Fred Allen sells the candidate for Governor the idea of spicing up his speeches with songs by the Yacht Club Boys, Rubinoffs fiddling. Before long Dick Powell wins the party nomination, campaigns successfully with speeches guaranteed not to last more than...