Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once past its rental-library title, which fits its subject like somebody else's glove, readers of New Author Flannagan's book will pull up only at its end papers, with a sigh. Though dealing with the fairly thoroughly canvassed tragic situation, or lack of situation, of half-breed Negroes in the South, the book tells its story with a ruthless, rare good humor. It is a highly un-saccharine good humor which will remind readers more of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn than of the Peterkin school of writers on Negro themes. And Author Flannagan, without...
...accomplish that purpose. Frank Kent, able observer for the Baltimore Sim, reported a "realization, growing stronger every day, that the tax bill, as passed by the House, falls so far short of balancing the Budget that even an approximate balance can't be claimed. . . . The bill will not pull the Treasury more than halfway to the top of the hole?much less...
...that has to be released by a ground-lever at exactly the right moment. It is performed by Marina (Anna Sten) and Jim (Reinhold Bernt), an arrogant animal-feeder who volunteers for the act to show Marina how good he is. Jim's best friend, Robby (Adolph Wohlbrueck), pulls the lever. You are aware that presently Jim will fall. When he does, Marina marries him out of sympathy. Robby takes Jim's place in the "Salto Mortale" and Jim takes Robby's job with the lever. When Marina and Robby fall in love, it complicates...
Lawyer Darrow's whole case was based on the assumption that Lieut. Massie, in a fit of insanity induced by the confession of his wife's ravisher, actually did pull the trigger that resulted in Kahahawai's death. If the young husband who held the gun and did not recall firing it could be cleared by the jury, the case against the other three defendants in no way linked to the shooting would also fall flat...
Rehearsing a fight scene last week, a professional pugilist forgot to pull his punches, knocked out Film Actor James Dunn, suspended work on the picture for two weeks...