Word: shocker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attractions at Chicago's Century of Progress, but the Executive Committee well knew that the picture would offend their pious, Roman Catholic boss, tall, white-haired Dennis Francis Kelly, who was trusting his subordinates to keep things in order while he vacationed in California. Another shocker was the angry Ration Box and Crucifix, in which Artist Adrian Troy expressed his opinion of the state relief administration with two scatological words seldom seen in paint or print...
...under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Vance this time is impersonated by Warren William. His performance as a detective is superior to his impersonation of Julius Caesar in Cleopatra but none of the ingredients of The Dragon Murder Case is sufficient to make the picture a puzzle or a shocker. Typical shot: Eugene Pallette, who, no matter who plays Vance, always appears as Vance's stupid police foil, muttering his catch line: "My experience as a criminologist teaches me to suppose...
...languid gentlemen in Geneva who keep the League of Nations bumbling along received a shocker last week which made it seem that the League Council, when it meets next month, may have to create the first League army of hired mercenaries...
...shocker came from the League's own President of the Governing Commission of the Saar, His Excellency Geoffrey George Knox, a swank British career diplomat with the manners of a Curzon and something of the late Marquess' talent for playing the Viceroy. Many a Saar citizen calls the League's Governing Commission the Negerregierung or "Government for Negroes," implying that Mr. Knox treats 100% Nordic, German-speaking Saar folk as if they were, to say the least, his social inferiors. Next January the League Commission must hold a plebiscite to decide whether the Saar shall be reunited with Germany...
Keith-Boston--"The Lost Patrol". Shilling shocker with Victor McLaglen. Long and moderately diverting stage show of the abortive musical type designed for the movie palaces...