Word: scares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finally, in desparation, he slips into her room by way of the window, locks all the doors, and attempts to scare the sweet young thing. However, Miss De Havilland is not as innocent as she appears, and indeed, finds herself quite pleased at the prospect. Mr. Howard finally gives up his reformation, succumbs to her attractions, and is engaged in kissing her just as Miss Davis enters. More or less disturbed, she plots a horrible plight for her straying fiancee, but finally yields to better instincts and Hollywood custom...
...domain of Germany, Italy, or Japan, is slight. In fact, the absence of any definite link between President Vargas and the Integralista, or Brazilian Fascist Party, and the very fact that news dispatches declaring the new regime to be totalitarian are not censored, reenforce the impression that the Fascist scare is simply a clever smoke screen used to becloud the ruling party's real objective--continuation in office...
Jokes are fine things if they are funny. But if they injure or scare or build up phobias in the victims, jokes are no longer funny though they may still be side-splitting to bystanders. Of such calibre was the hoax attempted against some Freshmen this week. To receive notice that he has contracted a social disease is not a laughing matter to a young man especially when the notice appears to come from a scource as business-like and straightforward as the Hygiene Department. It is too likely to be taken seriously, and the ensuing worry and doubt...
...known last month that he had permanently given up operations in Kansas City-where a Ford assembly plant was tied up so tight by striking United Automobile Workers that officials were unable to enter their own offices. Last week, tacitly admitting that he had merely tried to scare the city's authorities, Mr. Ford let it be known that he would reopen in Kansas City as soon as adequate police protection was guaranteed. In Detroit, Harry Bennett, Ford personnel director, announced: "We did not close the plant. It was done by the people of Kansas City. They...
...newest and most spectacular specific to come to the aid of ailing man last week caused the deaths of at least 41 people, the disability of countless more, the probable ruin of a Southern drug manufacturer and a nation-wide scare, the like of which had not popped out of medicine cabinets since the Jamaica ginger paralyzed Southwestern swiggers...