Word: nones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to one of the German sailors, the enemy used torpedoes. None of them hit, but they made Spee alter course and lose maneuvering advantages. For a while Captain Langsdorff himself took the wheel...
...wrote Correspondent Leland Stowe of the Chicago Daily News last week after interviewing a batch of prisoners brought in by the unconquered Finns. Correspondent Stowe found them "helpless, tragic wretches. . . . The Russians wore Army overcoats of a cheap, part-wool mixture and uniforms of quilted cotton. . . . None of the men we saw had high boots, but they had ordinary shoes-and several of them, as a result, had feet so frozen they could hardly walk. . . . All said they were reservists, mostly of the class of 1925, and had been called up only three months ago. Most of these men were...
Better than almost anybody who worked with him, Producer David Selznick sensed that the first rule in retelling a legend is exactly the same as retelling a fairy tale to children-no essential part of the story must ever be changed. In the film, none...
...Fortnight ago, American Smelting and Refining Co. dropped the price ½? ($10 a ton). Trade pundits guessed that the steel industry-one of the largest consumers of nonferrous metal-would let down production even further after January, and American Metal Market headlined: "The outlook for Metal Prices none too solid...
Shrewd, rufous Hubert Renfro" Knickerbocker, prize-seal of Hearst's International News Service, disembarked in Manhattan, gloomily prophesied that the present war will last for "six years or so ... after that the real war begins. . . . None of us will ever live to see peace again. . . . There'll be bloodshed, and enough to go around to satisfy everybody...