Word: stone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been murdered, circumstantial evidence, much like that on which he based his case against the innocent tourist, is definitely against Sir Alan. The extortion plot supplies a motive. It takes the best efforts of Lady Dearden, her astute confidant (Roland Young) and the head of Scotland Yard (Lewis Stone) to extricate him, put the blame where it belongs. For a melodrama containing two violent deaths, The Unguarded Hour is chiefly remarkable for an inappropriate placidity which Franchot Tone's yawnings, head scratchings and frowns to denote the weight of great affairs do little to dispel. Best shot: Roland Young...
...Kansas City, Mo. last week one of the oldest working educators in the U. S. cast a pair of undimmed eyes over a vast stone mansion, a remodeled greenhouse, two new French Renaissance buildings. Together with 38 teachers, 535 students, these edifices constituted a university no smaller than the Princeton at which big J. (for John) Duncan Ernst Spaeth had arrived 31 years before. Now Princeton's longtime English professor, still as shaggy and vital as an airedale, J. Duncan Spaeth had traveled 1,000 miles westward to dedicate a library, his first official act as president-elect...
...Stepping Stone to Fascism...
Comparing Senator Nye's congressional proposals with Mussolini's plans for the nationalization of the munitions industry in Italy, Thomas warned that such measures may provide the stopping stone to a fascist, military government...
...Venezuelan public filed in politely, took one look, promptly went berserk. Men, women and children, whose kinsmen and ancestors had died in Rotunda, smashed everything smashable, lugged away everything movable, ripped locks out of dungeon doors, wrenched bars from window-slits. Exhausted by an orgy of rage against stone & steel, they filed out into the bright noon of Caracas...