Word: packs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quiet and attentive. . . . He had the best eye for a moving ball I've ever seen. . . . It took four years of the hardest work to get the boy's title. . . . Last year the wonder boy never lost a set. . . . He is to be the best of the pack...
...Street like any other nickel-paying subway rider. As the train hurtled downtown, Mr. Hedley smelled smoke. About the train curled acrid yellow fumes. President Hedley did not need to be told something was seriously wrong. He at once took mastership of the situation. Shouldering his way through the pack of nervous passengers to the front car, he told the motorman to stop beside a local at the Bleecker Street station. At his command the guards slid open the side doors. Using seats to bridge the gap between the tracks, the subway's president supervised the herding of passengers...
...Manhattan in 1906, said Claimant Morris, he accidentally encountered "Papa" who took him to the family mansion on Fifth Avenue. He heard Sis ter Ella tell "Papa": "Get out and take your brat with you." Said the "brat" (age 26): "To hell with you; you're all a pack of nuts," and went away. Only once again did he see "Papa" in years of wandering about the U. S., hopping freights, working as an itinerant laborer. He gave "Papa" scarcely another thought until about a week after Sister Ella's death, which he chanced to read about in a castaway...
...about his business, I realized what a high civilization we have in Europe. He stormed that shop like a hewo." The picture wavers between light comedy and farce, William Powell straining toward the first, Kay Francis relaxing in the second. The jewel thief's pack of cigarets, a few puffs of which make the smoker idiotic, fall into the hands of the police with moderately comic results. Powell invades Francis' house for a midnight call and more light comedy. The police raid farcically and in the same vein Powell does a bit of broken field running through...
...independence from British domination. July 4, 1932 was the day when Franklin Delano Roosevelt made known his surrender to Tammany Hall. . . . This seems to me to be an inauspicious beginning for Governor Roosevelt's 'new deal'-unless he's dealing from the bottom of the pack...