Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mickey Ion ruled that, since he had blown his whistle to stop play before the puck went in, the goal did not count. A goal for the Rangers would have tied the score, 1-all, in the second period of the deciding game of the final series for the Stanley Cup, hockey's world championship. Referee Ion's decision, accepted after a five-minute altercation, meant instead that the Rangers had to take increasingly dangerous risks to tie the score. While they tried to do so, Detroit had and took opportunities to score twice more, once...
...Brussels last week fateful to the future of European Democracy could handily be visualized in London terms. It was just as if No. 1 British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley should put himself up as a candidate at a by-election and be taken so seriously that Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin should step down to fight him man to man as the opposing candidate. Further, it was as if King George VI should spunkily issue denials of rumors that he was pro-Fascist; and as if the Archbishop of Canterbury should come crashing through at the last moment with an appeal...
...traditional might shown by Rightist aviators off Mallorca. They impudently dropped 15 bombs, none of which hit the British destroyer Gallant, were repelled by her shellfire, and when London asked apologies these were profusely given -but still those Spanish aviators had been "unprecedentedly" cocky. The Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, weary of office and about to retire as Prime Minister, was doing his best to think chiefly of the Coronation, but all Europe realized that Russia, Italy, Germany and France were feverishly cheating on their pledges of neutrality toward Spain, daily running heavy risks that their machinations may touch...
...week at $2.34 by Manhattan's R. H. Macy store, were William Randolph Hearst Jr., publisher of the New York American, and Mayor and Mrs. LaGuardia. Other newspaper celebrities who helped launch Editor Spiro's game included Cartoonist Otto Soglow, Columnists Arthur ("Bugs") Baer, Heywood Broun and Stanley Walker, famed onetime city editor of the New York Herald Tribune...
Plot B is about Janet Haley (Barbara Stanwyck) just out of jail and trying to find her baby daughter, whom her bank-robber husband hid in some unknown place before he was shot. A gangster named Innes (Stanley Ridges) tells her he will lead her to her baby for $1,000 or her "friendship." When she tries to steal the $1,000 Gangster Hanlon has sent to Interne Kildare, Kildare foils her, learns her story, falls in love and gets Hanlon to capture Innes, who is seriously wounded. Kildare performs another emergency operation and Hanlon forces Innes to reveal that...