Word: rescuers
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...White House hurried Captain Einar Paul Lundborg, of the Swedish Royal Flying Corps, rescuer of General Umberto Nobile in the Arctic, to pay his respects to President Hoover. He wore a brand new uniform. Three Washington tailors had made it for him in three hours when his trunk failed to follow him promptly from Manhattan...
...small coincidence, deftly nurtured, came to the lovers' aid. The hag fell in love with the ferocious parent, the runaway wife made it up with her Don, the timid heroine melted into the arms of her rescuer, and they all lived happily ever afterward...
This conquering lover of the loud ocean was born in 1877 near the murmuring mills of Worcester, Mass. He is silver-haired and very shy. After the Antinöe disaster, the wife of the rescued captain tried to thank Rescuer Fried. "It is only one of the little things that happen at sea," he said...
...Cavalier has Richard Talmadge, long popular in horse-and-pistol pictures, playing two parts-El Caballero, rescuer of the daughter of an impoverished grandee, and Taki, a good Indian helping the other poor Indians, ground down by Spain in South America. He flings that dagger through the window, is chased by those bloodhounds, jumps over that wall, snatches that bride at the altar onto his horse and, as they approach the leap over the ravine, says, "It may mean-Death. . . ." at which she answers, "Death . . . with you. . . ." Spectators lingered in the hope that at some point in this nonsensical fairbanking...
...Serious Consequences when a half-breed steals both abductor's and abductee's horses in the desert. Thanks to Judith's habit of daily ablution, the water supply at that juncture amounts to half-a-canteen-full. When abductor, abductee and a young would-be rescuer reach the nearest water-hole, following a 20-mile drag over the hot sands, they find the water-hole has gone...