Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About 25,000 communicants attended, traveling by ship from all quarters. Neither Carthage nor much larger Tunis, ten miles away, could house them all. Most lived on their ships in Tunis harbor. Several thousand lived in tents on a large plot of ground provided gratis by a rich Tunisian Jew, and surrounded by gewgaws, food and drink stands. A couple of thousand found quarters with thrifty Tunisians, Moslems and Jews, who scraped and cooed to these profitable "infidels." The visiting "infidels" sharply eyed the resident "infidels," for white burnous-clad Mohammedans had cruelly murdered Christians and destroyed great Christian Carthage...
...today in "the inevitability of the international class war": Communism v. Capitalism. Example: When the Naval Conference met in London, leading Moscow papers printed an "exposé" in which the "real purpose" of Messrs. Hoover and MacDonald in calling the Conference was alleged to be the hatching of a plot for concerted action by the Capitalist Powers against Communist Russia...
...House next took up and passed a $110,000,000 River and Harbor improvement bill. Chief contest: acquisition by the U. S. from New York State of the Erie Canal, a money-loser. Western members, pledged to the St. Lawrence waterway, flayed this transfer as a New York plot to kill off the seaway through Canada...
...story about the elopements, marriages, and divorces of a group of New York society people is not a new theme for a movie, not is it the best one that can be found these days, despite the seeming scarcity of good plots. If it isn't the plot that makes a movie good it is the actor--or actress. So it is with "The Divorcee", the current film at Loew's State...
...even hint at the plot would spoil this review for then you would know it all. It is sufficient to say that it concerns marital troubles and that the producers have added enough novelties of plot to keep the audience in suspense...