Word: storm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wild tropical storm the steward slips overboard, the ship yaws blindly past Panama City, finally comes to a desperate, forced landing in a South American jungle. One prop is bent, one motor dead, the radio transmitter out, but nobody is hurt...
Clouds over Europe (Columbia) is no international storm warning, but the most enjoyable leg-pulling in a coon's age on such favorite cinema standbys as spies, secret war gadgets and Scotland Yard. Made in England with Hollywood money to satisfy the Buy-British quota laws, Clouds over Europe 1) elbow-digs at British stuffocracy sufficiently to get a nod from most Anglophobes; 2) contains the sort of British acting calculated to warm an Anglophile's heart; and 3) has enough thrill, pace and lovestuff to stay on the top side of any U. S. double bill...
From various U. S. Senators the Hazelton, Pa. Flying Club got some queer-sounding telegrams. From Nevada's Key Pittman: "Mildred arrived as storm broke. She is spending the night with me." From Colorado's Edwin Johnson: "The members of the office staff are taking turns sitting on it [a pigeon's egg] in the hope that something might happen." In his office California's Hiram Johnson shouted to his secretary: "Get this chicken out of here. It's raising hell." Explanation: as a publicity stunt arranged by the National Youth Administration each Senator...
...Many another orchestra and soloist twanged and blared it. It was even played in Hawaiian style. A local radio station dramatized the life of its author. All this hullabaloo in Washington, D. C. celebrated a work which first took U. S. ears by storm 50 years ago: John Philip Sousa's The Washington Post March...
...second storm blew up in the U. S. press when Lindbergh went to Germany after the Munich agreement and was decorated by Field Marshal Hermann Göring with the Order of the German Eagle. Friends tried to explain that the decoration was forced on him and he could not gracefully refuse. But that was not the case. He knew that he was to receive some honor, requested that there be no ceremony. At a dinner party one evening, Marshal Göring, the last guest to arrive, gave Lindbergh the medal in a case, saying simply, "By order...