Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gravity that they had reason to believe that Lerroux's Nephew Aurelio, his onetime Minister of the Interior Rafael Salazar Alonso and half a dozen other Radicals had taken Straus's money. Old Lerroux, his white mustaches trembling with rage, replied that it was a fiendish Monarchist plot to split Spain's Centre coalition. Mexican Straus could not be found last week anywhere but, amid Monarchist chortles, Premier Chapaprieta's Cabinet seemed doomed...
...Benny's wife, Mary Livingstone, feeds him his gags. He gives much of the credit for his success to Harry Conn who writes his routines-impromptu vaudeville with the affectation of a plot. In cinema, Benny played a half dozen pictures before Broadway Melody of 1936 made him a star...
Even if "The Old Maid" is not the best play of the year it is certainly an highly absorbing production which is doubly effective because if avoids the pitfalls of melodrama inherent in the plot and grows subtly but directly into an intelligent drama, of human relations...
...this vision of loveliness. What was she doing here? Was she a part of the diabolical plot against Drummond or had she too been caught in this hideous trap? What was this mysterious engine of death? My heart stood still!" Next week, "East Lynn...
...power and put in his present Premier, the 70-year-old botanist, Andrew Tosheff, under a semi-Fascist "authoritarian" Government. Colonel Gueorguieff's friends began to say that Bulgaria would be better off without Tsar Boris. Last week in Sofia the Tsar's police uncovered a vast plot to overthrow the Government and perhaps to assassinate the little Tsar, his Italian Queen or both...