Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Elizabeth Robins, and I hope I shall receive no further expressions of sympathy, which are embarrassing, to say the least. Any such messages should be sent to Miss Robins in London where she is greatly respected and in every way a credit to the Robins family, no relatives of mine...
...Human Values" In a voice which matches in timbre and persuasiveness that of an expensive Park Avenue physician, President Green, whose right nostril is broadened from a scar received in an Ohio coal mine, delivered the Federation's keynote: "During the Depression the A. F. of L. kept the faith. The movement has kept intact so that when happy days come again we will do all in our power to see that the American worker will get back the wages taken from him during the Depression. . . . Our fight is for a better manhood, for a better motherhood...
...have been procured earlier than 1913. Handwriting experts showed the flyleaf will to be a bungling fraud. Contemporary evidence proved that Mr. Wendel was not in Dundee in 1901 or in Manhattan in 1906. On St. Patrick's Day, 1908, Claimant Morris was working in an Arizona copper mine. In 1909, said Pullman Co., the Buffington had not been built...
...Frank Borzage?who quit school at 13 and worked in a silver mine to get money to go on the stage?it was his second Academy award. His first was in 1928, for Seventh Heaven. It was the second time also for Frances Marion who, one of the most highly paid and consistently successful scenarists in Hollywood, was a star reporter in San Francisco before she started writing for the cinema at $15 a week, working up to an Academy prize in 1930 for The Big House. Lee Garmes, noted for his "low lighting," was a cameraman's assistant...
...incident on which Kameradschaft is based occurred at Courrieres, Alsace-Lorraine, in 1906. When part of a mine on the French side of the border blew up. German miners from the other side came over to help rescue the imprisoned miners. International-minded Director Pabst moved the disaster up to 1919, showed the reminiscent rancor of the War in an exclamation by the sweetheart of an imprisoned French miner when she hears that a rescue party is coming over from the German side. She says: "Les Alle-magnes?c'est impossible!" The Germans pile out of trucks, go down...