Word: snarls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Hoover took a hand at straightening out what was threatening to become a serious snarl within Reconstruction Finance Corp. over railroad loans. The trouble started when banks showed a tendency to call their short-term credits to the carriers and leave the full burden of relief up to the R. F. C. Estimates of the relief needed by railroads ran as high as a billion dollars for 1932 alone. Reports were current that President Dawes was willing to have R. F. C. assume this full financial load with no stickling over collateral, whereas Board Chairman Meyer felt that...
Naturally the Barrymores dominate the picture, but they are ably assisted by Tully Marshall and Karen Morley, for whom, nevertheless, it is hard to share the Duke's enthusiasm. But leave the brothers alone together, face to face, let them return snarl for snarl, wit for wit, chuckle for chuckle, and any one may see that the two Barrymores are worthy of each other...
...underpart of the plane; target practice in which airplane gunners fire at three blimps with cameras mounted on their guns. The plot which ties these and similar ups-&-downs together is familiar but ingratiating. It has to do with two airplane gunners?Clark Gable and Wallace Beery?who snarl at each other through most of the picture. Beery plays a dirty trick on Gable which causes trouble between Gable and his girl. Beery's girl tries to patch it up, succeeds in making Beery try to say "I'm sorry," with the shamefaced expression at which he is adept. Later...
...eyes and ears of the world, we feel perhaps that bounties should be shifted from man-eating lions and placed upon the heads of sensationalist writers who seek to debunk the country of every lingering element of charm. But to those of us who first heard a leopard snarl or the Ashango tomtoms beat in the pages of a Paul Du Chaillu book, Africa will remain the magic land forever. Now appears for the first time a life account of the man who had this ability of bewitching his readers. When energetic Paul submerged himself in the forests...
...going into a needless power dive. Below him, in a little one-story observation shack, with a platform on the roof, should have been the night-watchman. Pridham dove his Pitcairn to zoom over it. The observers presumed that he intended to rouse the watchman with the snarl of his motor. He misjudged his distance by inches. His wing ripped off the platform, the plane out of control hurtled about 100 feet to the Connecticut River and landed in four feet of water, upside down. When the observers extricated him he, the jaunty, cocksure pilot of the hour before...