Word: packs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scouring of the subversive underworld, rawboned Martin Dies of Texas, First Whip of the Red Hunting pack, never put on the stand a real, live, honest-to-goodness Communist. At his House Committee on Un-American Activities hearing last week in Washington he could have reached out and touched one: wispy, unobtrusive Earl Browder, general secretary (at $40 a week) of the Communist Party, its 1936 Presidential candidate...
...entertainment, The Rains Came suffers from the fact that it uses its salvo of disasters not to solve the problems of its characters, but to heighten them. Since these characters to begin with are as slick and typical a pack as ever cavorted through a Louis Bromfield serial in Cosmopolitan, after the rain they seem sadly washed out and anticlimactic. Chief among them are Tom Ransome (George Brent), a remittance man from a good county family, his old flame Lady Edwina Esketh (Myrna Loy), who deserted him to find a rich husband, and Major Safti (Tyrone Power), the handsome, high...
...begun jumping from balloons in parachutes that opened automatically. In 1918 he was the first man to try using a parachute in a pack that had to be opened after the jumper left the plane. It worked. Les Irvin's first pack parachute was made of cumbersome cotton. Later he aroused the interest of Silk Dealer George Wake in making better silk chutes. They incorporated just in time to get a 500-chute order from the U. S. Army, soon found a market when pilots began leaping from ailing planes into the Caterpillar Club (Star Member Charles A. Lindbergh...
...marital Nemesis, gay but tenacious Show-girl Miriam Aarons (Paulette Goddard). The drama of The Women is the effort of a good woman to adjust herself to a social pattern in which she is as much at a disadvantage as a Pekingese out foraging with a pack of Siberian wolves. Mary does succeed in keeping her happiness, but not until she too has done a little clawing...
Delano Forbes preferred to pass her remaining days in her Paris home. Cool and capable, she helped her sister pack, warmly embraced her, watched her motor off for Le Havre. Few hours later, aboard United States liner Washington, the President's mother joined Grandson John, his wife Anne Clark Roosevelt, who had been nervous as cats because "nobody ever knows what grandmother will do next," and their friends Mr. & Mrs. Edward G. Robinson of Hollywood...