Word: raft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could make resounding political copy of his book, but New Dealers are sure to like it better. The burden of Mr. Hendrick's epic song is: Fear not. The Constitution has survived much worse storms than this one, is not really so much a bulwark as a life-raft-"a living and fluid instrument, built not for an age, but for all time, responsive to the needs of a changing world." He reminds gloomy headshakers that the U. S. Government has outlasted every European form of the last 150 years...
Clinging to a raft, Lieutenant Hobson and his men were fished out of the water by a Spanish launch at dawn, imprisoned with utmost courtesy...
...Cortland, N. Y., seeing a newspaper photograph of a pair of cows stranded on a raft, Farmer Harold Griswold added to his flood relief contributions of potatoes and cabbage, one bale...
...continue his research, serves humanity, marries Ruth. David Boehm's hard-hitting screen play is far better craftsmanship than the ponderous directorship of Charles Vidor. Flying to Hollywood, Producer Schulberg's attention was attracted to dark John Trent, .who suggests a cross between Richard Barthelmess and George Raft, in the coffee shop of the Kansas City Airport. When a female passenger said audibly: "That's a dish!" Producer Schulberg offered him a job. Trent's real name is Laverne Browne. Son of an Orange County, Calif, orange grower, he took up aviation while at college, barnstormed...
...nations? For such a face, and such a love, would not any real man abdicate a thousand thrones, and reject a thousand crowns? With her love as his own, might not such a man take her in his arms and bear her away to some palatial, ornately festooned raft, lying on the ever undulating, billowing bosom of the mighty waters-and float, float: and love, and love, in idyllic charm among fragrant balmy zephyrs of the unnumbered coralline islands of the South Seas, in a blissful heavenly Heaven, forever, and forever...