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Word: messe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...view and is made over-incidental throughout the regulation reels to the eventual moment of disaster. Like "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" the tragic ending might have been written first, and the rest filled in backwards. Here is one statuesque character walking steadfastly to doom over a mess of minor...

Author: By M. F. E., | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/20/1937 | See Source »

...horse mouth of one Lady Wiggam to her own circle of friends. In one week end of sustained busybodying, Susan manages, by artful innuendo and a few lucky potshots, to disrupt the placidly illicit love life of her hostess, turn a well adjusted May-December marriage into a triangular mess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 18, 1937 | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

ANNAPOLIS, MD., Oct. 15--A spirit of hilarious confidence permeates Bancroft Hall Dormitory of the U. S. Naval Academy tonight on the eve of the Harvard encounter. The Midshipmen expect their team to win, and they expressed this belief by an unending series of cheers all during evening's mess...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMPLETE CONFIDENCE MARKS PRE-GAME NAVY | 10/16/1937 | See Source »

...back to his wife, however, and escapes from prison. When he wants Miss George to dodge cops with him, Mr. Tracy steps in, tells his friend he, too, loves Miss George, and refuses to let her go. Mr. Tone rightly figures he's made pretty much of a mess of things even though he did mean well and proceeds to get himself shot by a searching party...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

...island in San Francisco Bay is the Federal Government's stronghold for hardened offenders. At Alcatraz trouble started last week when 23 prisoners refused to leave their cells to work. One hundred of the 280 inmates went on strike. When Warden James A. Johnston went to the prison mess-hall during inspection, Convict Burton Phillips, serving a life term for kidnapping, jumped on the 63-year-old warden from behind. Before guards could help him, Warden Johnston had been knocked down and savagely beaten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Jail Breakage | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

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