Word: scraping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...written the story in advance. To oblige a wench named Rosita (Katherine de Mille, sultry daughter of Producer Cecil Blount de Mille) Villa has the newspaperman conduct a wedding ceremony. When Madero goes to Mexico City, there is no further work for Villa. He gets into a scrape for killing a bank cashier who is slow about cashing a check for him, finds himself exiled to Texas where he becomes a down-at-heel barfly...
...Prime Minister find time to draft the necessary Order-in-Council. In this delay the Opposition thought it smelled a rat. Furthermore, the The committee room was jammed and overflowing when Prime Minister Bennett took the witness stand last week. In its nearby chamber the Commons could scarcely scrape a quorum. Quickly the Prime Minister assured the committee that he owned no C. P. R. securities, that there was nothing sinister in his actions. Authority for the guarantee was contained in emergency legislation. The delay in issuing a formal order was only an oversight. Most of Canada quietly took...
Other Bolinas folk were lucky too, and soon about 300 lb. had been amassed. Then followed days of dreadful suspense. All Bolinas could not scrape together $15 for a professional analysis of its treasure. Finally last week the San Francisco Examiner got a local firm of chemists to test a sample of the Pepper find. It, too, assayed 70% ambergris...
...either. When he returned to private life, he and Watterson dined together on the best of terms. Last week the acting editor of the Courier-Journal, now owned by Robert Worth Bingham, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, got into a serious scrape for much less daring impudence...
...boxes the British butlers bayed, like the House of Lords, "Hear! Hear!" Soon thereafter guests stopped watching each other. The hotel was serving drinks in two dining rooms whence presently came impromptu chorus singing. A delegation of White Star Line stewards arrived from the S. S. Majestic to scrape acquaintance with the maids...