Word: portant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Finally, he believes that the most im portant thing for the peace and welfare of the world is an intimate understanding and relationship between England and America, and that his marriage with this very gifted lady may help to bring about that beneficial co-operation between English-speaking nations...
...nearby Barrington. The next day he flew to Tulsa, central operating point for his company and terminus for its big telegraph system. He passed two days meeting with depart mental managers, discussing leases, pur chases, operations. The next day he flew to Amarillo where his company has im portant gas holdings. He looked over their reports, took off again. Twice forced down by bad weather, he caught a train at Winslow, Ariz., continued to Los Angeles. There, in a comfortable suite at the Biltmore, he had little time for rest before his rooms were jammed with attorneys, bankers and accountants...
...megaphone artist in Hollywood. A onetime playwright and stage director, he seldom interrupts his actors or leaves his chair to show them what to do. His sedentary technique must have been particularly practical for Waterloo Bridge since he had an expert cast whose major deficiency is no more im portant than a heterogeny of accents and, in one scene, the gingerly demeanor toward tennis rackets that is universal on stage and screen. The soldier (Kent Douglass) seems naif but not absurd; his stepfather (Frederick Kerr) is a magnificently deaf old gentleman whose grunts and questions are not only real...
...people did not want Fatty Arbuckle to return. One was Canon William Sheafe Chase, who said: "I have no personal animosity toward this man but think it very unwise to have him at this time to what I consider a very im nity." portant Wrote moral Editor influence Quirk: in the "No one commu accused Arbuckle of making a picture wasn't clean...
...everything else Professor Ramzin finally confessed to high treason in the commonly understood sense-not the special Soviet sense in which sabotage is construed as treasonable. In the summer of 1929 Professor Ramzin, according to his own statement, betrayed the more im- portant plans and secrets of the Soviet Air Force to a "French secret agent, Monsieur R., who seemed very pleased...