Word: save
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said he. "My company has fired me. I have decided not to fight further." His attorney amplified: "Col. Brittin feels the necessary effects of the disapproval, and condemnation expressed in the decision of the Senate so completely destroys him and his future that it is idle to try and save anything from the wreck...
...ambition. . . . I came with one great hope. I thought that the Parliament really desired to effect for a time the united front required in the situation. And it seems to me that the spectacle of this Parliament united around an old man in the resolve to save France and its constitution, will give to our country great prestige in the world...
...brought out beautifully and skillfully--who finds himself ruled by an insatiable desire to murder small children. In satisfying his passion he terrorizes the city: the police unable to find him, take to rounding up the underworld: whereupon gangland sets out to get the murderer in order to save themselves. They succeed and give him a mock trial, but before they can kill him the police rush in and the picture ends on a weak note...
...ordered the telegraph company to ring her up, and have sung: "Happy Birthday, dear Lucy. . . . from Maude and Bob." Next day, faced with similar requests from Chicago socialites, Postal Telegraph called the service "irregular," forbade it. Conductor Arturo Toscanini announced that he would personally acknowledge all contributions for the Save-the-Philharmonic drive sent to him at Manhattan's Astor Hotel. Campaign leaders wanted to handle the replies at their professional headquarters but the maestro's mail has become his consuming interest. He cuts engagements short, rushes home between rehearsals to see if more letters have come. Those...
...star, at the peak of his career. Until their work separated them their affair was as smooth as celluloid. While Oliver tried to rest before his next picture, Donka slaved, had little time or inclination for him at the end of her crowded day. But she found time to save an old pal from committing suicide by taking him into her bed. Oliver found them together. Donka tried to patch it up, but Oliver had been hit too hard. Besides he was dying from an obscure stomach complaint. Operated on too late, he kept calling for Donka. When her picture...