Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marmaduke Grove (Gro-vay) is part Irish. His show of Irish temper to 100% Chilean officers cost him Power. Aristocrats, they were shocked to their military marrow by his notion of 'talking to privates." Promptly they began to plot against "Red" Grove. In 48 hours soldiers under General Augustin Moreno were marching on the Presidential Palace...
...Brookhart defeat was the first of any sitting Senator in 1932. For six years the chunky, sharpshooting Irregular from Iowa had roared & ranted against Wall Street and Big Business. Republican conservatives in the Senate were pleased that his rasping voice would soon be stilled. His Progressive colleagues smelled a plot in the fact that his opposition was divided among five candidates. Senator Brookhart might, they hinted, even run as an independent this autumn...
...Merrily We Go to Hell, the fact that the hero is a journalist is incidental to the plot. The picture, adapted from Cleo Lucas' novel I, Jerry, Take Thee, Joan, is a study of domestic relations rather than of an occupation. As such it is by no means novel but it is well plotted, brilliantly acted. Sylvia Sidney has an extraordinary way of making audiences believe that she is ecstatically happy. She does it with a thoughtful, crooked smile and a small chuckle. Her pleasant state of mind is credible in this picture even when March, who has lost...
...Department will also retain the use of the Rogers Building for drill purposes, in conjunction with the Harvard Dramatic Club. Rumors that the University is contemplating the purchase of the Rogers Building from the City of Cambridge, to which it was given several years ago in return for another plot of land could not be confirmed...
...northeast bank. A Washingtonian, wife of the Scripps-Howard editor of the Washington Daily News, she has seen great political and social lions grow from little cubs. The results of her bright-eyed observation she sets down in an excited, exciting style. With its high-pressure people, its journalistic plot, her rather amateurish novel somehow manages to be one of the most characteristically U. S. productions of the year...