Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what was behind these labor disorders, opinions ranged from the Communist Daily Worker's charge that it was a monstrous conspiracy of Federal officials and shipowners to crush maritime labor, to the Hearstpaper belief that a great Communist plot was on foot to destroy the U. S. merchant marine. The Roosevelt Cabinet found itself seriously divided in dealing with breaches of marine discipline. When striking seamen tied up the Panama Pacific Line's S. S. California for four days in San Pedro last month (TIME, March 16), Secretary of Commerce Roper talked boldly about having the ringleaders prosecuted...
...plot of this play, which is Mr. Hodge's first published work, deals with undergraduate life in the Edinburgh Medical School. Opening in London in October, 1933, at St. Martin's Theatre, the play has played well over 1000 performances...
...finally talks in court, it not only frees the prisoner at the bar but puts her husband in his place. When his onetime mistress has been murdered, circumstantial evidence, much like that on which he based his case against the innocent tourist, is definitely against Sir Alan. The extortion plot supplies a motive. It takes the best efforts of Lady Dearden, her astute confidant (Roland Young) and the head of Scotland Yard (Lewis Stone) to extricate him, put the blame where it belongs. For a melodrama containing two violent deaths, The Unguarded Hour is chiefly remarkable for an inappropriate placidity...
...purposely confusing. It might also seem as if everyone in the book were going about in disguise-Author Ford himself in a rather hasty imitation of E. Phillips Oppenheim. Those who are not too impatient to put up with his sighing way of writing may persevere through his ingenious plot and discover that he has written a thriller. But even Ford fans will not compare Vive Le Roy with Author Ford's War novels. Still a first-rate gossip at 62, some of his transatlantic tricks of speech are growing on him. Author Ford has never perfectly assimilated...
...their first night in it, Leroy leaves their studio to deliver his dangerous package. Why he never gets to his destination, what becomes of him and Cassie, just how sinister MM. de la Penthièvre and Penkethman really are, and how plausible is Author Ford's portentous plot may be left to the panting reader...