Word: shattering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ordinary standards, their story is howling melodrama, but in a setting of cosmic proportions it fades to the decent outlines of engrossing human narrative. Lost in the eerie privacy of a London fog, Ann and Patrick recognize that their life-long friendship is love, the real thing. Lest they shatter the life of Ann's gentle husband, Peregrine, Patrick escapes to the Midlands there to conduct relief among striking miners-and seduce their handsomest daughter, Martha. In a feverish vision Ann realizes what has happened, pines for Patrick. The horse-faced woman snaps at the situation, meat for malicious...
Louisiana is a state unto itself. Many are its traditions, fine and enviable. One of them is that in its 117-year career in the Union it has never removed a governor by impeachment. Last week it prepared to shatter this tradition...
Endless circles and arcs, endless glissandos of flight. Over Southern California droned the Fokker cabin monoplane Question Mark. At the dawn of the new year five U. S. Army flyers had swooped into the air from Los Angeles. Their resolve was to shatter all existing records for endurance flights, to stay in the sky until men or engines succumbed. Experts had allowed their three Wright Whirlwind motors 400 flying hours before bearings splintered and cracked, poppet valves ceased to pop. The wind-bronzed flyers seemed staunch, infallible...
...vessel I shall shatter...
COQUETTE-In which love and death shatter the fancies of a fickle woman. Helen Hayes is invaluable...