Word: sinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herbert Marshal is so taken with Margaret Lindsay that he has to ask Ann Harding for his freedom is not made quite clear. In the cinema, a smile from the villainous Margaret turns the trick. In real life the trick would be turned down the sink if unfaithfulness were as unattractive as it is in "The Lady Consents." But if you can swallow this one incredibility, you will enjoy he picture...
...that extraordinary gathering Franklin Roosevelt had prepared a treat: the most pretentious piece of oratory he has delivered as President, a speech publicly proclaiming a turning point in U. S. history. For 45 minutes he spoke, sometimes allowing his voice to swell in a sonorous diapason, sometimes letting it sink low as he leaned forward confidentially over the desk. In the glare of klieg lights which made the large mole over his left eye stand out in pitiless relief, he turned the pages of his manuscript with shaking fingers. Time & again his visible audience burst into applause, cheers and halloos...
...youth interrupted the festivities by shouting, "Stop! Comrades, you are making a terrible ideological mistake. Trees in the Communist society are meant for such serious use as the building of homes for the proletariat. Comrades, I order you to go home! Otherwise the whole meaning of our Revolution must sink into a morass of opportunism. Comrades! And you 'Grandfather Frost,' if you do not go home I shall denounce you to the Party Secretary of our Komsomol headquarters...
...reached an agreement with Just-A-Man in January which Laval as Premier is having a Frenchman's own time in trying to keep. Since coming into office in June he has been sufficiently perplexed by France's economic and political crisis, a situation trying enough to sink many a lesser head of state as it had already sunk Doumergue and Flandin; but from this sizzling frying-pan he has been compelled to leap into a devil's fire oi a new kind of League politics. Attempting tc give Italy her promised free hand in Ethiopia...
decided to build a Class I railroad out of his own pocket, which was exceedingly well lined with Standard Oil millions. Right through the Panic of 1907 he continued to sink those millions into what is now the Virginian Railway, a 600-mi. line running from deep water at Hampton Roads, Va. through the Pocahontas and New River coal fields to West Deepwater, W. Va. It cost Oilman Rogers between $30,000,000 and $40,000,000 and was one of the few railroads financed entirely...