Word: spun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Face. They could turn out a study of a woman outcast and her rejuvenation; or they could emphasize the play's melodrama, suspense and horror. Producer Victor Saville (Goodbye, Mr. Chips) and Director George Cukor (The Philadelphia Story) chose the latter. With a tight, smooth script they have spun a slick thriller whose box-office ending is but a slight drawback to a suspenseful 106 minutes...
...House of Commons Chamber, where Disraeli argued with Gladstone in the days when the Empire was being completed, where Prime Minister Herbert Asquith told the members of Parliament that World War I had begun, was gutted by seven high-explosive bombs just 72 hours after Winston Churchill had there spun one of his finest fabrics of oratory. Big Ben, whose broadcast chimes had become a symbol of empire, had his face blackened and cut, but in a few hours the huge clock was running again. The exquisite timber roof of 900-year-old Westminster Hall, under which Charles...
Cruising down the Potomac on a hot Sunday afternoon, the onetime Coast Guard cutter Milan turned suddenly off course when five tide-spun swimmers were spotted struggling in the water 1 ,000 yards away. As the cutter drew up, lines were thrown overboard. Then the strong arms of Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, Assistant Secretary Ralph Bard and Colonel William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan helped pull the swimmers to safety...
...though Scotty has gone through a lot of money, Banker Gerard has never seen any of it. Last week in Los Angeles court he sued for his share. Scotty, affable and fanciful as ever for all of 65 years and a gleaming shiner ("A mule kissed me," he explained), spun a fine yarn of a hillside currency cache which unhappily washed away when the rains came. The judge tolerantly termed him "a confessed cheat," observed that here was one hick who had trimmed city slickers. Broker Gerard, still friendly enough with Scotty to shake hands, hoped at least...
...stuff that myths are made of was being spun out in Greece last week. The Greeks spoke and acted like a race of giants 20 feet tall, hurlers of thunderbolts, crushers of men. Far from being daunted by the noisy threat which was giving Germany victory after bloodless victory in the Balkans, the Government declared: "Greece has shown in the most definite way that any idea of armistice would find her disdainfully hostile." The heart was still fiercely hot in Greece's Army; it launched a violent attack along the entire central section of the Albanian Front, and within...