Word: smashings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Madrid, Oct. 6, (Saturday)--The Spanish government, sitting in war council and besieged by reports of rebellion from every section of the Republic prepared today to smash the extremist revolt by throwing every loyal regiment at its command into the field...
...Mayer's W. S. ("Woody") Van Dyke (White Shadows in the South Seas, Trader Horn, Eskimo) dislikes being pigeonholed as a "location-director." Yet such he was until he made The Prizefighter and the Lady last autumn. Since then he has made Manhattan Melodrama and The Thin Man, both smash hits. He rarely makes more than two "takes" of a scene; many directors make a dozen. He is a reserve captain in the Marine Corps. Most of his friends are military officers. Military maneuvres are his hobby and he maps out his pictures like a general planning a campaign. Parties...
...royal words because of a thundering airplane advertising Crawford's Cream Crackers overhead. Last week Their Majesties had the satisfaction of knowing that $25,000 has been paid to expiate this lèse-majeste. To Liverpool papers William Crawford & Sons, Ltd. sent under no compulsion, except the mighty smash of public opinion, the following abject letter...
Amid fresh cheers for His Majesty's Government, which will up the number of British war planes from 844 to 1,304 in the next five years, the House threw out the Labor motion of censure by a smash vote...
When the strikers, accompanied by women and children, returned to the plant someone threw a stone. Smash went a window. From the pottery building the crowd moved steadily around to the Administration Building, breaking every window on the way. At that point the deputies sallied forth to break up the mob. Women and children fled before a wave of tear gas but the men returned to the attack. Again the deputies sallied forth. Rocks, bombs, clubs, shouts, curses made up the fray. Some deputies armed with shotguns fired on their attackers. After a two-hour struggle the strikers were driven...