Word: shipwrecks
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...nocturnal. It is a gusty romantic divertissement hand-tailored by Screenwriters Gene Towne and Graham Baker to fit the talents of its three principal players, Charles Boyer, Jean Arthur and Leo Carrillo. Its purpose is entertainment and it achieves its end. Its importance, cinematically, is due largely to a shipwreck sequence which takes rank with the famed earthquake in San Francisco...
...Dictator to renounce: "the illusion of Disarmament"; "the illusion of Collective Security"; "the illusion of Indivisible Peace"; "the absurdity of Juridical Parity among all States"; and therefore to renounce as the avatar of all these the League of Nations "and the lies that still constitute relics of the great shipwreck of Wilsonian ideology." The entire speech was of such extreme compression and explosive candor that Il Duce could be said to have stated the quintessence of Fascism in just about 14 minutes...
...cinema, no radio, no automobiles, no police, no liquor, live in rigidly moral communism on potatoes and fish, have practically perfect teeth and general health. Of mixed English-Scotch-Irish-American-Dutch-Italian-African descent, most of their ancestors got to the bleak volcanic island by way of shipwreck. Also from a wrecked ship, in 1882, arrived rats which multiplied faster than mariners...
Last week closed another notorious shipwreck scandal, that of the S. S. Vestris, which went down in a storm with no persons off the Virginia Capes seven years ago (TIME, Nov. 26, 1928). Decided a Federal Court in Manhattan: The disaster was an "act of God" for which Lamport & Holt Line Ltd., operators, and Liverpool, Brazil & River Plate Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., owners, need pay no more than the $500,000 they have already given claimants...
...just after Chris had sailed. The letter that told him what she had not been able to met him in Manhattan, made him jump ship there and stow away on the first liner he could find. His will to get back to Anne was strong enough to survive a shipwreck in mid-Atlantic, but not omnipotent enough to keep his wife from running away with a more compelling...