Word: sharks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wearing handkerchiefs around their middles and picking oysters. They encounter surprisingly mild adventures when stranded on a cannibal island. The Wings also discovered a chipper little urchin called Ko-Hai. Ko-Hai was foolish enough (in Lori Bara's little story) to be bitten to death by a shark. After his funeral, Ahmang avenges this mishap by killing the shark with a knife. Samarang is a silent picture, with musical accompaniment. It is pleasing scenically and photographically. In the inevitable fight-between an octopus and a shark-the shark wins. The stagiest shot is the one that was really...
Here was news, news that all Cuban newspapers could print without fear, and they spread themselves with pictures, columns of text and descriptions of the inquest of the shark-killed boatman. Miss Harding flew for Hollywood, heavily veiled, after providing a $25-a-month pension for the boatman's widow. Only briefest mention was given another ship far more important to every Cuban, the United Fruit liner Peten carrying lean young Benjamin Sumner Welles from "New York to his post as U. S. Ambassador to Cuba...
Every sizeable U. S. university has a collection of barnacle-like "tutoring schools" which gain fat fees by cramming predigested knowledge into dullards and lazybones. The tutor is usually a shrewd, undersized person who was at one time the "whiz" or "shark" of his college class. There is usually a legend that he has been offered enormous sums to take a college professorship. He works in a grimy, smoke-laden office, his shirt-sleeves rolled up, is busiest when examination time approaches. His stock-in-trade is a file of old examination papers, a collection of mimeographed texts, outlines, shortcuts...
...last week from its President-elect, fishing in the Bahamas, was brief, light-hearted radiograms flashed from Vincent Astor's Nourmahal to Miami. Sample: "We are anchored off Andros Island and have good fishing. [New York's Justice Frederic] Kernochan fought a 15-round draw with a shark. Both escaped. All well. Having wonderful trip." A Secret Service man was recovering from sunburn. Mr. Roosevelt had lost a "fish as big as a whale." Commodore Astor was the "perfect host...
...inside the Stadium last Saturday after the game, spectators coming out Gate 33, on the Soldiers Field side witnessed another battle just outside the Stadium. This time the object of the attack was Edward G. Robinson, movie actor, and star of "Five Star Final", "The Hatchet Man", and "Tiger Shark". Mr. Robinson, standing by his car, went unnoticed until an observant boy ran up to him with a pencil and a ticket stub and asked him for his autograph. In an instant a crowd, waving pencils and papers engulfed him, and was only dispersed with the coming of dark...