Word: snarls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President was disappointed. The 73rd Congress was not destined to go down in history that evening. Shortly after 11 P. M. Majority Leader Robinson telephoned the White House to report that the venerable gentlemen of the Senate, their tempers frayed after 14 hours continuous session, were in a parliamentary snarl as tangled as a mermaid's hair and were going home for the night...
...Striking at the airmail snarl the President told Congressional leaders to postpone permanent legislation until next year. He urged a commission to study the whole field of private and military aviation in the meantime, endorsed temporary contracts with private airmail carriers...
...bookmaker. Garry Madison grows jealous. When the bookmaker is found murdered in a gutter, Garry Madison is held for murder. Sheila Aiken, who could have given Garry an alibi by admitting that he was at her house, refuses to do so unless Lady Lee divorces him. This horrid snarl is untangled as simply as it was arranged, by a shot of Madison's uncouth father (C. Aubrey Smith) noticing tears in Lady Lee's eyes when she has said farewell to Garry...
...inflict it on audiences until more successful brethren had been forgotten. Engines roar, sputter, machine guns bark, and planes go down in flames, but the only redeeming feature is Richard Dix. Even worshippers of the red corpuscles however, might be induced to pity, the protruding jaw and the twisted snarl, which, has already been used to such advantage, when its ineffectiveness in one asinine situation after another, is dangled before the eyes...
Last week's case was based on the death of the eighth victim, Arthur Nelson. The Mooney defense hoped that by reviving the case it might make a matter of court record the snarl of perjured testimony which originally helped convict the 50-year-old onetime labor agitator. But it takes two sides to make even a court fight. The District Attorney, a Mooney protagonist, refused to bring charges. His assistant told Judge Louis H. Ward he had no case. Up rose Agitator Mooney to demand his constitutional right to defend himself, to put evidence of his innocence before...