Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this statement, by George Vil-helm Pabst who directed it, were true, Kameradschaft would of course be a negligible sermon, unfit to be observed. It is on the contrary a powerful and convincing picture of which the ethical values are important because, in his treatment of a coal-mine disaster on the Franco-German border, Director Pabst has implied them so artfully...
...will be to read the news with a cold and hasty eye before passing on to the Harvard starting line-up. And again, all things considered, it was not so long ago that glistening white canvas billowed and welled above Sever Quadrangle, while below, Silk hats mingled with or mine hoods during the advancement of certain men from one stage in the society of scholars to another...
Died, Margaret Tobin Brown ("Unsinkable Mrs. Brown"), 65, relict of Denver's famed Miner James Brown, heroine of the S. S. Titanic disaster; of apoplexy; in Manhattan. After meeting "Leadville John" Brown at the bottom of a mine shaft, marrying him in three weeks, she tried to spend his $10,000,000 fortune in philanthropy, bizarre clothes and crashing Newport and European society. In a Titanic lifeboat she took her turn at the oars before rescue by the S. S. Carpathia...
...TIME, Oct. 10) William Randolph Hearst gave newshawks an interview. Excerpt: "The surgeons say the operation was not important,* but whenever folks begin plowing around in my interior, the situation becomes important as far as I am concerned. Dr. [George Washington] Crile says he has been doing operations like mine for years and has never had a fatality. Of course, I do not want to spoil such a good record and am particularly pleased...
...English Literature at Notre Dame University, gained fame as a scientist and oculist. Also he was a Latin scholar, conducted voluminous correspondence with Popes Leo XIII and Benedict XV. Brother William was a naval captain. Frank began work as a smalltown newspaper cartoonist in Pennsylvania, quit when a mine foreman whom he had caricatured fell down a shaft and was killed...