Word: shots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pertinent in this connection is the fact that last week the Mexican Ministry of Education put on the air* from Station XFX the notorious assassin José de León Toral, who recently shot General Alvaro Obregon, national hero and President-Elect of Mexico (TIME, July...
...already and freely said that I shot the General Obregon. All this was merely to make me tell them who I was, that they might track down my supposed accomplices. . . . Finally, I told them my name," thus ending the torture...
...Metropolitan, had written in his diary: "Tannhaüser wasn't brave enough to stick it out, but I have the courage to do it." It was recalled that 48 years ago, in Hanover, Germany, 16-year-old Francis Morris, uncle of Noel Morris, shot himself after hearing the opera Traviata...
...Taxi shows Helene Costello falling for an honest bootlegger in a complicated but exciting melodrama filmed on a train. A variation between the race between the car and the train is one between train and airplane. In sound, Comedian Tommy Dugan is the screen's first stammerer. Best shot: the line of taxicabs bringing Antonio Moreno's Scotch up from the boat. Best loud-line (Dugan) : "I was in jail but I got pppp ... I got pppp . . . par . . . they let me out for a while. . . ." Best criticism (Variety) "Can go into any wired house for a week...
...known. Its drive was unceasing. One week before Election Day, Editor James S. Vance sent through the mails a "final appeal" for funds. Many of the letters were despatched to northern Republicans with Park Avenue addresses. "I want financial help," wrote Editor Vance, "that will enable me to single shot Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Virginia, Florida, Arkansas and Texas, and turn a probability into a certainty...