Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years the world's fair of the cinema world has been the International Film Festival at Venice. In the past this annual, late-summer gathering to pick the world's best films has chosen such universally acclaimed cinemas as Man of Aran, Anna Karenina, Mayerling, La Kermesse Héroïque. But two years ago B. Mussolini began to take a personal, political interest in the cinema business, and last year cinemindustries not bedded in the Rome-Berlin axis began to feel its centrifugal force. The No. 1 prize, the Mussolini Cup, went jointly to Nazi Leni...
Aground, while the pilots work to repair the ship, this ill-assorted group finds itself living out an experiment in communism, taking orders from the chief pilot (Chester Morris), lessons in exemplary citizenship from the anarchist (Joseph Calleia). Surrounding this jungle commune is a tribe of headhunters, who pick off two of the passengers, the mobster and the jailer, and beat war drums for the rest. When the patched-up plane is finally ready for a takeoff, only enough gas is left to carry four, and the boy. The anarchist pulls a gun, takes the law into his own hands...
...down for its first engagement, in Tyrone, Pa., 21 years ago. Fred, 18, was then in Penn State, studying architecture and engineering. His younger brother Tom and the boy next door, a dark, antic trap-drummer named Poley McClintock, had a two-piece piano & drums outfit that used to pick up occasional pin money playing for Victory dances, etc. They invited Fred, a violinist who preferred the banjo to join in. Another banjoist, Fred Buck, joined too. Four-strong, they barnstormed Pennsylvania's busy mining district, picked up a sax player or so, a trumpeter, a trombonist, soon...
...White, whose colleagues in 1910 unanimously petitioned President Taft for his elevation to lead them. Mr. Hughes resigned from the Court in 1916 to run for President, went back as Chief in 1930 by President Hoover's appointment. Washington insiders last week predicted that, if Franklin Roosevelt must pick a new Chief Justice and follows precedent by picking from the field, his choice will lie between Frank Murphy and Robert Houghwout Jackson. If he promotes a Court member, they said, the lucky man will be either Felix Frankfurter or the Court's baby, William Orville Douglas...
...with me (training in arts, sciences, business . . .). You're going ahead and I'm going your way. Have you room in the hold for a man who can prove he's worth his salt?" Soon John West began to get replies. Said one: "Altering course to pick you up." When he graduated last week, John. West had a job with a Philadelphia advertising agency...