Word: smashingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mary Pickford classic of 1916, The Poor Little Rich Girl depicts its peewee heiress-heroine wandering away from her father's mansion, following an organ grinder to his basement flat, making friends with the vaudeville actors who live upstairs, joining their act which turns out to be a smash hit on the radio hour of the crotchety soap manufacturer who is her father's business rival. Shirley is absent from the screen in only six sequences, foots neatly through three dance numbers, sings You've Gotta Eat Your Spinach, Baby and But Definitely, which she pronounces incorrectly...
Thundered the hoary little Welshman who in his day spunkily steered the Empire to its greatest victory: "The Foreign Secretary is going to Geneva to smash the League of Nations. There is nothing but international anarchy as an alternative...
...French employers, to judge from the way in which they rebuffed strikers. Almost as one man members of the ''200 Families'' who own the heavy and munitions industries of France refused to grant the 10% wage uppings other employers were widely granting. Accustomed to smash others, they seemed to be waiting for Leon Blum & Friends to try to smash them, daring the new Cabinet...
...Crimson only got one more hit off the offerings of the Jumbos' Izzy Harris. Deciding runs were scored by Frank Owen in the fifth when the umpire called a balk with a man on third, and in the seventh when Bilodeau sent a circuit smash down the left field foul line...
...Communists, once decimated by "our own carelessness," now organize in cells of three, are rarely caught. Suspected Communists are usually murdered in the parks by Nazis, infrequently tried and executed. The German Communists predict the next war will last less than a year, after which a civil revolt will smash the Army and the Nazi regime...