Word: sodden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first and flash the news to the Department which then broadcast trade orders to U. S. industry. Herbert Hoover thought foreign trade was able to make or break domestic prosperity and to this end the Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce was his favorite lever in trying to pry a sodden nation out of the Depression. Before he left office the bureau was spending nearly $4,000,000 per year on 53 foreign offices with 168 employes, 34 domestic offices with 235 employes and a headquarters staff...
...skipper on the bridge of a new destroyer, taking her speed trials in a full gale, he saw something bob past on the crest of a wave. "It had a lifebelt round its body, the face was that of a skeleton, but the scalp was intact and the sodden tresses of hair were black and very long...
...ruins. Four relief planes, soaring to the scene of disaster, were beaten back by the blizzard, had to return to Tokyo. Ten Japanese destroyers tore through choppy seas, landed doctors, medical supplies and food at ports along the stricken coast where over 100 small towns & cities lay in sodden ruins...
...coarse cloth toil, sweat, wonder, learn, and finally succeed. The most industrious brigade is awarded a banner, the laurel wreath of the worker's state. There is no pomp or glitter, little enough of comfort, many primitive growls and grunts, but no oratory: the whole tone is rough, sodden, gray, inarticulate. The plot is of little or no moment--nay almost non-existent. The picture is too disjointed, too inchoate to be a work of art. No exceptional photographic ability is shown. The actors have little individuality. But the picture is essentially warm, mellow, and human...
...that their enterprise is legal. Fortunately they are so incompetent that they make near beer in spite of themselves; when arrested, they are immediately set free. By acquiring an experienced braumeister, they are soon in dangerous rivalry with racketeers. They cap their misdemeanors by getting a whole town so sodden that when federal agents raid the brewery again, no evidence is left. What! No Beer? is certainly an incentive to lawlessness but it can be considered a triumph of comic invention only by the most ardent Keaton & Durante enthusiasts...