Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...woman rested a while, until she regained strength to expel the placenta. Then without pausing to tie the umbilical cord, she dressed herself, wrapped baby and placenta in a sheet, went forth for medical help. Two blocks away she found an incredulous policeman in a patrol car. He thought she was fooling until he looked at the baby. Then it was only a matter of minutes until Amelia Toner and daughter were in the best of civilized hospital care, both getting along well...
Booker T. Washington stands at Tuskegee. Minstrels sing spirituals. The pageant becomes modern Harlem medley. Irene Castle McLaughlin explains her old-time dances, the "Bunny Hug," the "Hesitation," the ''Maxine." A chorus dances them. Orchestra Leader Noble Sissle recalls the War with his ''On Patrol in No Man's Land." Bill Robinson does a tap dance, brings down the house, encores again and again. W. C. Handy leads his "St. Louis Blues." All 5,000 voices break into a tremendous chant...
Howard Hawks is a specialist in action stories with a technical background (The Dawn Patrol, Scarface, The Crowd Roars). Lean, tall, with grey hair and a young face, he inherited a fortune which he lost in silent pictures, gained enough experience to make another. He always works with his writers preparing stories. Patient, diligent, tactful, he calls his actors by their first names. They call him Mr. Hawks. His wife is Norma Shearer's sister Athole. He plays good golf, drives a green Duesenberg, loses weight every time he makes a picture...
...guard them from kidnappers 130 Pratts, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the late great Charles Pratt, co-founder of Standard Oil, bought a radio-equipped police car to patrol their 1,000 acres in Glen Cove, L. I. At the first sign of an intruder, every road on the Pratt estates will be barred, every gate will swing shut, every neighboring police station will be notified...
...censors for the first time classified 124 recent pictures for the guidance of Catholic cinemagoers. Among the 52 found "suitable" were Operator 13, The Witching Hour, Honor of the Range, David Harum, The House of Rothschild, Wild Cargo, Melody in Spring, Harold Teen, Thirty Day Princess, The Lost Patrol, The Ferocious...