Word: smashups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mermoz, surveyor of the Casablanca-Dakar line across the Sahara, the South American line between Buenos Aires and Santiago; veteran of a dozen smashups; who, before he was lost in the South Atlantic, confessed to Saint Exupéry: "It's worth it, it's worth the final smashup...
...Author Saint Exupéry, who fought his way through a 150-mile cyclone off the Argentine coast; survived a smashup at 175 m.p.h. in the Libyan desert (on his Paris-Saïgon flight), was rescued in time's nick after a 350-mile trudge...
Topper Takes a Trip (United Artists- Hal Roach). For George Kerby (Gary Grant) and his wife, Marion (Constance Bennett), the consequences of an inexcusable automobile smashup are that, as ghosts, they gain the ability to vanish or materialize whenever they like. In Topper (1937), Marion and George proved themselves indefatigable posthumous cutups: to save their friend Cosmo Topper (Roland Young) from his fussy wife (Billie Burke), Marion materialized herself in Cosmo's hotel room at an improper moment. In Topper Takes a Trip, the sequel, Topper and his wife set out to get a divorce, but neither of them...
Flutter of the week in Manhattan was caused by the first exhibition of paintings by famed Muralist Diego Rivera's German-Mexican wife, Frida Kahlo. Too shy to show her work before, black-browed little Frida has been painting since 1926, when an automobile smashup put her in a plaster cast, "bored as hell...
...worst wreck was the smashup of his first marriage which came when he had three children. A hard drinker, suspicious, temperamental, French became jealous of a young boarder, accused his wife of infidelity, made the boarder dance at the point of a gun. After the divorce Harry French went through a kind of proletarian purgatory: jobs slipped through his fingers, money went for liquor, strikes got him in trouble, his daughters by his second wife died. Moroseness drove him to unforgivable railroad sins: abandoning his train in the middle of a run; deliberately tying up traffic until three freights...