Word: soled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year. Even in 1933, after Japan had seized Manchuria, it earned 11,500,000 rubles. It was shorter, by 3,300 mi., than the Trans-Siberian Railroad's great circle route to Vladivostok. But its war value to Soviet Russia vanished when Japanese troops swarmed over Manchukuo. The sole question then was whether Japan would grab or buy the Chinese Eastern...
...Major K. K. V. Casey of the du Pont company kept the stamp on his desk and had sole responsibility as to which of the du Fonts' vast bales of incriminating documents deserved the "Poison Label" and which did not. Donald Y. Wemple is a minor employe of the Nye Committee...
Cheered by the King's Henchmen, he concluded his Genoa speech thus: "Know, then, that you will have, in my father first, and later in myself, a defender prepared to make every personal sacrifice and inspired by the sole desire to consecrate himself utterly to the country, for its happiness, prosperity and greatness...
While in this piece Mae West is billed merely as star and sole author, it is generally understood that she did the casting, passed on the costumes and is responsible for everything except the sound patents. She is Ruby Carter, an entertainer of the mauve decade, the idol of St. Louis and of Tiger Kid (Roger Pryor). Tiger Kid is a prizefighter until his manager frames a telephone call which makes the Tiger think Ruby is unfaithful. Abandoned by the Kid, she goes to work at the "Sensation House" in New Orleans where Ace Lamont (John Miljan) seizes...
...seeing the picture will question for a moment Miss West's claim to sole authorship of the two-line vaudeville gags which serve for dialog. Typical cracks: "A man in the house is worth two on the street." "That guy's no good. His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." "What is your favorite sport? Don't embarrass me. boys." (In front of a picture): "It's an old master, you know. . . . . It looks like an old mistress to me. . . ." "Are you here for good? Well, I'm here...