Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bank, taking home his winnings in a suitcase which he has brought for the purpose. What follows is an adventure story designed to fit Ronald Colman's elegant, off-hand romanticism. Will he go back to the tables? Hunchbacks, horseshoes and other lucky symbols strewn in his path by the backers of the sporting club fail to lure him. On the Blue Express back to Paris he meets Joan Bennett, falls in love with her, does not know that she has been employed by the sharpers of the sporting club to bring him back to the tables to leave...
...fortnight passed, the hunt died down. One day last week one Walter Kelley, 58, went walking in the woods near Seekonk, Mass., found a little dog lying beside his path. It was hardly more than a bag of bones, too weak to moan, pads worn to the quick. Kind Mr. Kelley had forgotten about the great dog hunt, but he carried the miserable animal to a nearby farmhouse. The farmer promptly led him to a tree, pointed to a poster. It was Sox. Hastily summoned, a veterinarian gave the dog an injection of glucose and a 50-50 chance...
...plans in the light of the penalties involved, should the Supreme Court eventually sustain the Act. Pointing out that they could reserve full right to challenge the Act while. filing the relatively simple registration, he cried over the powermen's heads to their stockholders: "There lies the simple path of safety...
Said Vittorio Emanuele III, opening a new section of the University of Rome and engaging the fortunes of his Royal House: "In every phase of its history Rome has carried out its mission of civilization. Today Italy is following along the same path, more than ever united in a spontaneous effort to faith and will! The Nation is moved by justice and necessity in an action which the exigencies of Italy's life, Italy's security and Italy's future impose upon...
...most remarkable feature of the career of Frank Arthur Vanderlip, as recounted in From Farm Boy to Financier, is that his progress was so ludicrously easy, since he apparently met with fewer obstacles in his path to the presidency of "the biggest bank in the U. S." than most people encounter when catching a train...