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Three hours later the boy at the pithead heard the signal bell from the 141-ft. level, indicating that the three wanted to come up. Seconds later he heard the dread nine bell alarm, meaning DANGER, then a great rumbling roar. The walls of the shaft had buckled, the ground over nearly an acre had dropped several feet. Headed by Premier Angus MacDonald, most of Nova Scotia's Provincial officials rushed to the scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Gold Mine | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

...entire action takes place in a desolate stone house situated on a remote New Jersey sand bar and with the constantly throbbing with the roar of the sea and eerie swish of the wind. The dramatics personae includes a mother who is so devoted to her mysterious infant that she places no value upon the lives of the child's nursemaids; a father whose sole energies are absorbed in his relentless pursuit of the poor nurses; a servant who is blind, about seven feet tall and as ugly as his disposition. There are sundry other characters moving about with appropriate...

Author: By S. M. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/21/1936 | See Source »

...scanned the horizon up and down Memorial Drive. Then, after a cute pitcher's wind-up, wham! went a rock right through one of the Master's prize windows. First came the pleasant tinkling of broken glass; then the awful silence that follows catastrophes; and finally the horrible roar of the outraged being within. Ten seconds later the front door flew open and out thundered Roger Bigelow Merriman, Gurney Professor of History and exalted Master of Eliot House, brandishing his cane like the bloody brand of Rollo. The little lad turned pale and fled for the river, but Sir Roger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 4/14/1936 | See Source »

...Brock Pemberton has now fitted Lawrence Riiey's opus with a second cast and loosed its lusty voice from the proscenium of the Plymouth theatre, just recently quieted after the robust howls of "Three Men on a Horse." Like its predecessor, "Personal Appearance" is definitely big-box-office. The roar of good, healthy American laughter is long and very loud. Your people, sir, enjoy "Personal Appearance...

Author: By S. M. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/12/1936 | See Source »

...Shoot me first!" screamed Viscountess Saito darting forward and clapping her hand over the muzzle of the nearest machine gun. Instantly both trigger fingers clenched and the double roar of ZUG-ZUG-ZUG began. Bloody was the brave Viscountess' hand as her lord, the Admiral and Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal crumpled and died under the murderous fusillade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Murderous Mustards | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

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