Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gravely dotting a huge map of Spain with colored pins: one color for Civil Guards, other colors for police reserves, airplane squadrons, cavalry, infantry, artillery. Pausing in his handiwork he told them a startling story. In Northern Asturias police had raided a secret cache of arms and discovered a plot to overthrow the Republic. The arms came from the National factory at Toledo. They had been paid for by a rich financier with the good Basque name of Echevarietta, theoretically for shipment to French Somaliland. The guns seized in Asturias were only a small part of the order. Where were...
Without women, the plot nags at the theological doubts of two younger Fathers. Suddenly all doubts vanish when a miracle seems to have cured a Father who has had paralysis. But the doubts reappear, concentrated in the person of the hero (Bert Lytell), when he learns under the secrecy of the confessional that the miracle was no miracle but only a case of courage induced by a happy dream. Since the Father Rector (William Ingersoll) has designated him to plead the case for the "miracle" and the canonization of the house's founder at Rome, Bert Lytell's faith...
...Cambridge Institution of learning last year have discovered the error of their ways and have transferred to Yale. Harvard students met this blow with commendable level-headedness, however, and after meeting several hours behind locked doors, reported to the press that the whole thing is a dastardly Yale plot...
...think it's a Yale plot," the Cambridge spokesman said. "For years Andover men have comprised the largest contingent in the Freshman class at Yale, but recently the trend has changed so that nearly as many Andover men are going to Harvard as to Yale. These transfers are Andover men, and we have decided that this stunt was all planned out last year by Yale authorities trying to lure Harvard men to Yale and bolster that rapidly declining institution...
...fashioned a film in which the treatment and setting subordinate the plot and acting. The story is based on an ancient legend of the Dolomite mountain-folk, that of the fatal attraction of the "blue light" which shines forth from the craggy peak of Mount Christallo, luring the young men of Santa Maria to their deaths. Only one person had climbed to the top and uncovered the secret of the mountain, a comely Italian girl, banished from the village for suspicion of witchcraft. One day a young artist, attracted by her beauty, followed her to the "light" and discovered...