Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trading in used cars to replenish the empty royal treasury. When they learn that the hotel waiter has been seen stuffing bills into their wallets, the other members of the royal family are puzzled but Prince Nickolas is only pleased. "Don't say anything," he whispers, "he might stop...
...usual tiresome vulgarity of the part. Brian Aherne, in a curly red wig, is an ebullient Mercutio, gay as May in the Queen Mab speech, bitter as gall when he dies cursing "both your houses." Capable but less distinguished as Romeo is Basil Rathbone, whose virtuosity appears to stop just this side of eloquence. His pausing, prosy delivery is perhaps better suited to modern evening dress than to 16th Century tights...
Says 60-year-old Mother Robinson: "My boy doesn't smoke, drink or gamble. He is a perfect gentleman and everybody who knows him loves him. He finds it hard to send me anything to live on here in New York because of the Russian laws that stop money from being sent out of the country. I manage, by the help of the Lord, to live after a fashion, but New York is a hard city to live in. Last year my boy visited me, so he could renew his American passport...
Never sufficiently publicized to suit themselves, cinema celebrities will stop at nothing to get their pictures into the papers. They will, even as two cinemactresses did within the fortnight, molest dumb animals of great value, at the risk of being arrested...
...noble signs of the zodiac were ignored by the bespectacled time-meters, and they are by this near two weeks out of our monthly reckoning. Now Easter Day is to have the full moon resplendent no more in her sky. . . . It is pretty bad. We're going to stop being lunatics after all. The moon is to be evicted from her last retreat, the Paschal Date. For my part, if they standardize Easter for the sake of Trade (as Christmas is lost in rubicund sales ads) what will remain? Only lovers in rural lanes will hereafter lift their eyes...