Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...times for the sake of America, but not just for the sake of making a Red Grange hero out of a politician whose "most amazing accomplishment" during a year set aside for him to experiment, with the entire facilities of the country at his disposal, was to ring up a good score for personal popularity...
Early one morning last week whistles began to blow, bells to ring in the city of Manila. In Washington a few minutes before (noon of the day before) President Roosevelt, beaming his best smile, exclaimed: "This is a great day for you and for me!'' The gentlemen he was addressing were two Filipinos, Senators Manuel Quezon and Elpidio Quirino, who had just watched him sign the McDuffie-Tydings bill offering to make the Philippines a Commonwealth for ten years, to grant them independence thereafter. Everybody beamed but no one was genuinely elated. The McDuffie-Tydings...
French newshawks spent a great deal of time last week trying to connect the late Alexandre Stavisky and the great "international spy ring" about which the French police were growing so eloquent following the confessions of U. S. Citizen Robert Gordon Switz & wife. The pay is too small and the risks too great for a swindler like Sacha Stavisky to bother with international espionage. But one connection between the two stories was obvious. Both the Paris police and the Sûreté Générale were under orders to play the Switz spy scare...
...Loving, James W. Tower '35; Albert the Acquisitive, John Michael '35; Herold the Helpful, Whitney M. Cook '36; Inebriated Philosophers. Stephen Greene '37 and William M. Hunt, 2d '36; Draper, Hotel Manager and Publican, William H. Ledgard '36; Girl with the Mask, Betty Anne Noland; Girl with the Ring, Lois Hall; Girl with the Ambitions, Miriam Hurwitt; Girl with the Box, Jean Goodale; Elderly Relative and Nanny, Agnes Love...
...wild-nature aspect so overemphasis as to emerge into the usual naturefaker travelogue; always it fits quietly and briefly, nicely timed. The picture as a whole accomplished two things which I never thought to see done: it makes the hackneyed and hitherto invariably repulsive love-among-the-savages theme ring true; and it wipes out the station on Hollywood left by a long succession of darkest Africa, raw-meat-in-the-jungle, ameba-love abortions...