Word: splinterable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sweepers. Wooden ships returned to their own. A "splinter fleet" of fishing smacks from ports like Grimsby and Hull was equipped with extra-heavy bottom-trawling nets, or with heavy chains to drag between them well astern...
Even single-minded Dr. Beaven unlimbers a little at the sight of suffering air-raid victims, stops his girl hunt long enough to patch them up. When Japanese undo his handiwork by bombing the hospital, a shrapnel splinter lodges in Dr. Beaven's scientific brain, stays there until Dr. Forster, rushing by plane, sampan and pony, arrives in time to remove it, in the most delicate operation of his life. Science, says he, can do no more, but science cannot bring Dr. Beaven out of his coma. When Audrey's timely arrival turns the trick, Dr. Forster piously...
...against the former. From an obscure eight-year man in the House, with more of Washington's shoe-polish than of Texas' alkali on his boots. Martin Dies had, with all his unfairness as a prosecutor and ineptitude as an investigator, become the Opposition's favorite splinter in the Administration's fundament. His continuance as an inquisitor specifically demonstrated other things...
John Ford, the director of "The Informer" and specialist in fog effects, has made a rather exciting adventure story out of "Submarine Patrol," celluloid epic of the U-boat chasing "splinter fleet." If you can sink back into plush upholstery, forgetting the tremendous bellows of Hollywood publicity that are building up Nancy Kelly into stardom and the sweet simplicity of sturdy Richard Greene, you may enjoy the fine technical effects (especially the fog) of this bloodless movie. The film's makers have had to go afield from the old love-interest, which is a pretty wet gag in Hollywood...
...Captain Bligh and his Henry VIII. The script, by Bartlett Cormack, is suave enough to make the implications of its story acceptable to U. S. censors. Good shot: the beginning of a profound change in the relationship of Ginger Ted and the lady missionary- when she removes a splinter from...