Word: pour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...better melodrama than a sermon, Stop-Over assembles its characters by a neat device. On the night that Bartley Langthorne (Sidney Blackmer), a played-out romantic actor, returns to his small town mansion for a rest cure, Halloween pranksters plant a Tourists Accommodated sign in his front yard. Tourists pour in, but cannot pour out because the housekeeper's gangster husband (Arthur Byron) holds them prisoners with...
...Senator Wheeler favors letting weak roads, however important, "go through the wringer." Irked at the ICC's allowing RFC to aid H. & O. and its willingness to aid Erie, Senator Wheeler last week demanded that the ICC be reorganized because in creating RFC Congress "never in-tended to pour public funds into the bottomless pit of badly financed railroads...
...miles beyond the city, meant no more than the nipping of that fingernail. In another sense, it was a major victory of the war, for it took the initiative away from General Franco just as he was about to launch his long-planned drive and induced him to pour his reserves of men and munitions into the battlefront chosen by his opponents. Apparently it ended the danger of a surprise Rightist offensive at any other point for months to come. Psychologically it was just as important to Leftist morale. By a swift, well-executed triple-column movement Leftist arms...
Promptly the protests started to pour in to Senator La Follette's office. In some cases at least the dapper little heir to the Wisconsin Progressive machine had apparently stuck his neck way out. The list had been compiled in large measure from questionnaires sent out to detective agencies. And some of their clients had used detectives, not for labor espionage, but for such humdrum matters as the discovery of petty pilferers...
Also imported from London with Veteran Buchanan are Evelyn Laye and Adele Dixon, the unreasonable lasses who refuse to share one man's love. Both of them pour forth their hearts like English skylarks, both are pretty as English hawthorn. Vilma Ebsen,* an all-American periwinkle, dances engagingly with Charles Walters...