Word: scene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possibility, nay the probability, of such a progenitor has thrown the entire staff of the Geology department into utter confusion. The retreat, headed by Professor Dither, has not yet begun, but the imminent final in Geology 1 this morning promises to be the scene of a scientific polemic comparable to the Scopes trial. If Professor Dither is able to stall off the reporters, the examination will be given as if no such event as Spinachseed's discovery had transpired. The professor states that his strategy will be to pretend he has never heard of Spinachseed. He has been quoted...
...press at 2,023 killed, 6,996 wounded, 359 captured by Leftists. More indicative of Dictator Mussolini's power was his new interpretation of what happened in the famed Guadalajara battle of March 1937, between Italians and Spanish Leftists. Described by U. S. and British newshawks on the scene as a panicky rout for the Italians, it now appears in Italy's press as one of the country's five "great victories" of the Spanish Civil...
...Colonial Legislature empowered Captain-General* & Governor Sir Edward Brandis Denham to declare a state of emergency if necessary. Eighty British soldiers and 400 native policemen were mobilized; 100 local militiamen, 250 special constables were called out. The British cruiser Ajax, with 550 well-armed bluejackets, rushed to the scene from Bermuda. On Britain's Empire Day-May 24-police and mobs clashed. Three Negroes were killed, 30 persons went to the hospital, 70 labor leaders, including forceful chief Labor Leader Alexander Bustamante, were jailed. At week's end the dock workers' strike had been settled...
...Epochal scene: Freddie, feeling his oats, winning a tussle with crabby old Uncle Ebenezer, tossing off a mug of small beer and strutting about with today-I-am-a-man cocksureness...
Three Comrades (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Like many another able writer, F. Scott Fitzgerald has gone to Hollywood. In this script, with Edward E. Paramore, he tried to adapt Erich Maria Remarque's novel into a corrosive arraignment of Nazi Germany. They wrote a scene in which a poor Jew proclaimed his love for Germany, another in which a rich Jew refrained from cheating three young gentiles, a scene in which famed books, including Remarque's, were burned by Nazis. Hays office censorship left none of these scenes in the finished picture. Much political content is removed...