Word: scene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...having the heroine marry the right man, and wish that she had married the wrong, but most of the time it struggles along with some time-unhonored devices that can't help shooting wide of their marks. The ending is particularly unfortunate. The heroine rushes on to the scene of the duel between her newly-valued husband and her worthless duke of a lover, manages to be the only one hit, and is reconciled with her worthy spouse, in the arms of him and the face of death. There follows an imaginative scene whose fantasy draws nothing but uninvited laughter...
Hooked to a national circuit, WHAS was busy day and night directing local relief workers for miles up and down the river. Frankfort, where 1.500 families took to the hills when the Kentucky river flooded the State capital, was reported to be the scene of the catastrophe's most brutal and piteous event. As the water rose in the Frankfort Reformatory. 2,900 panic-stricken prisoners began fighting...
...French and the Turks, past masters of diplomacy, fenced delicately over what was now admitted in Geneva to be virtually a demand by Dictator Kama! Atatürk ("Father of the Turks") that France hand over to him from her Syrian mandate the sanjak (district) of Alexandretta, scene of recent bloody riots (TIME, Jan. 18). Sagely observed a veteran League sec- retary, "Like everyone else, except the English and the French, the Turks have now become dynamic and got the 'gimmes.' Today they want Alexandretta, tomorrow it will be the oil fields of Mosul. The prairie fire...
...prices were abnormally low, farmers were beginning to reduce chicken feed and to slaughter too-productive pullets. Meanwhile the great chain grocery stores which sell New Yorkers about one billion eggs a year were making about 11? a dozen on the spread between wholesale and retail prices. Upon this scene moved Surplus Commodities Corp. To strengthen the wholesale market it recommended, and Secretary Wallace approved, purchase of 179,000 dozen eggs on the New York Mercantile Exchange...
...simple for him and yet too deep, and it evades the hand of the actor as a consequence. Nevertheless, with fine support from Gertrude Lawrence and Elsa Lanchester, the picture does give an idea of the tragedy of Remrandt's life and an insight into the contemporary artistic scene. If nothing else, it might at least stimulate a trip to Fogg to find out about...