Word: pathe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Arrested with Tanenzapf were eight of his associates, including one Alexander George Johannides, who, listed by Pathé as recipient of large payments for "inventions," told police he had never invented anything. Because of the long interval between Pathé's bankruptcy and the disclosure of its president's business technique, and because Pathé's Tanenzapf had often entertained members of the Chamber of Deputies at dinners and previews, the French press promptly scented another Stavisky scandal...
Uprooting all vegetation, burying all life in its wake, the avalanche ploughed through rich plantations, removed whole hamlets from the face of the island. Few in the wall's path had time to escape. Injured victims of previous smaller slides were caught, their legs and arms torn from their bodies by the onrush of debris. A corps of carpenters constructing wooden coffins saw a mass of mud moving down a valley, were themselves buried alive. Mothers tried to herd their young to safety as the slithering ground under their feet swept whole families to death. One seven-acre area...
...before the New Deal was inaugurated, Homer Cummings of Stamford, Conn, was slated to be Governor General of the Philippines. He went into the Cabinet, vice Walsh, on 48 hours' notice. It was understood he would serve only a two-year hitch, but his willingness to find legal paths to Franklin Roosevelt's goals made the latter persuade him to stay on. However, the path he proposed to enable the New Deal to make over the Supreme Court won him no kudos when it failed...
...forth all day when "The Old Man" is in London. On the rare occasions when his Lordship goes to the Express, Manager Robertson (who met him as a bellboy carrying his bags into a Canadian hotel) has been known to see that all cigaret butts were removed from his path...
There is an unsightly rim along each path in the Yard where people have walked on the grass...