Word: reel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sudden, doctor, my ears begin to buzz. The room swirls around me. My eyes jerk and I can't keep them still. I reel, and if I don't catch hold of something I fall to the floor. Sometimes I faint. I break into a cold clammy sweat. I feel nauseated. And, doctor, I can't help vomiting. These attacks have been coming over me more frequently. I used to be able to hear perfectly clearly in spite of the buzzing in my ears. But now I am getting deaf. And, doctor, I'm afraid I'm going...
...more important than the commander's personal tragedy are the remarkable battle sequences in the last reel, an international patchwork of action shots enterprisingly assembled and cleverly welded. Russian-born Léon Garganoff and some of his fellow émigrés in Paris started an unpretentious photographic laboratory called Société Anonyme Lianofilm, made enough profit to try a picture. Garganoff sent Nicholas Farkas, his crack cameraman, to Japan. Farkas made a close study of aristocratic Japanese interiors, got shots of harbors cluttered with boats, of Japanese street crowds. He claimed that he made films...
...liking for all these inevitable ingredients, as well as for the toothsome Patricia Ellis and the dogged Alan Jenkins, Mr. Cagney's perennial henchman. The Kid himself, may best be described as presenting an able impersonation of James Cagney. We particularly admired the chivalry with which, in the last reel, he permitted his bride a pretty attempt at assault...
...dinner will as usual precede the meeting at the Hotel Commander, 16 Garden Street, Cambridge, at 6 o'clock, for $1.25 a plate. Gustavus J. Easelen will speak on "Why Chemists Leave Home--A News Reel of the Meeting of the Chemical Society." All are invited and reservations may be left with Arthur R. Davis at M. I. T. Cambridge...
...Next War" is a three-reel talkie written by Burnet Hershey, former war correspondent and deals with the evolution of the art of war from the early knights down to the present time as well as a vivid portrayal of the tanks, poison gas and other contrivances which are expected to be used in the next...