Word: returning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...used on gala occasions: raising the right arm straight into the air. This salute when made quickly closely resembles the Nazi salute. To most spectators, the, acknowledgment which the athletes gave as they passed Herr Hitler, standing on the balcony of the club house, doubtless appeared to be a return of his own Nazi hand-wag. To avoid giving this impression, the 115 U. S. athletes, next to last in the alphabetically arranged procession, failed to salute at all, merely turned eyes right. When they were cheered less loudly than the rest, U.'S. correspondents cabled that...
...factory, Chaplin has to screw nuts on plates in an assembly line. He is dexterous but uneasy. A fly lights on his nose. He brushes it off. The belt gets ahead of him. He follows it into the maw of a gigantic machine which has to be reversed to return him to the line. At lunch time, the president of the factory uses him to test a new eating machine which throws soup in his face, jams a corncob against his teeth, pounds his face with a blotter. After this hideous experience, Chaplin goes wild. First he races about...
...House room to loaf in, proved most patient and generous in allowing himself to be snapped in all manner of unstudied, and sometimes thoroughly unheroic, attitudes. Though presumably annoyed, he made no public remonstrance even when a lingering photographer caught him greeting Mrs. Roosevelt with a kiss on his return from a 1934 vacation trip...
Died. Oliver Peter Heggie, 57, Australian-born character actor of stage (Androcks & the Lion, The Truth About Blayds) and screen (The Letter, The Swan, The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu); of pneumonia; in Hollywood, a few days after completing the role of Dr. MacIntyre in the cinema, The Prisoner of Shark Island...
...Mayor Wilson and Dr. Mitten. As Deputy Controller, Mayor Wilson had forced P. R. T. into the trusteeship and driven Dr. Mit ten's father out of the company. Well aware, therefore, was the Mayor that the Wilson-Mitten alliance might be interpreted as a step toward the return of dis credited Mitten Management...