Word: slew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corsican Brothers (Small; United Artists) are (both of them) Douglas Fairbanks Jr., who has yet to make up his mind who he is: his father, or Ronald Colman. They are also the offspring of Alexandre Dumas. Their eventual defeat of Baron Colonna (Akim Tamiroff), who slew their parents, is accomplished with heavyhanded, uninspired direction and all the corny hokum that accompanies the routine Hollywood romantic picture...
...relative of the man who slew Rasputin, Meyendorff has been in this country since he was 11, and he has obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in America. Last spring he applied for a passport back to Russia, and when it was refused, the government instituted proceedings against...
...seems to us that since the prehistoric days when some insignificant mastodon up and slew in combat the mighty tyrannosaurus rex, the favorite has taken a licking. Look at Goliath, for example. All we know about him is that he was "of great size" and a "champion of the Philistines." Obviously he was a good man, if a bit unpopular withal. And then up steps, that little upstart of a David and overthrows him by means that even a Yaleman wouldn't sink to. Goliath is undoubtedly one of the most abused characters in history, just because his enemies happened...
...Beirut. Sir Henry reached north for Beirut (where St. George reportedly slew his dragon) with two columns. As his reach continued, the columns joined at Tyre, jabbed for three days at Sidon...
...Meade Lux Lewis on celeste, Charlie Christians on electric guitar, and Israel Crosby on string bass. The combination, as you can see, is quite exceptional, and the music is awfully interesting. The four tunes, "Profoundly Blue," "Celestial Express," "Jamming in Four," and "Edmond Hall Blues" are all blues, two slew and two fast, and Hall is the star on everyone, although Lux Lewis' delicate celeste work is an unusual departure from the heavy beat of ordinary boogie-woogie Collectively, the boys weave some rather distinctive melodic patterns around the twelve-bar theme; what's important, however, is the fact that...