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Seventh Heaven (Twentieth Century-Fox). When Chico (James Stewart), Paris sewer rat whose ambition was to be a street-washer, rescued Diane (Simone Simon) from her sister, who was beating her with a strap, he wondered why he did it. His emotions became even more puzzling when, after he had agreed to give Diane temporary shelter in his garret, he found that he did not want to let her go. Not until he saw Diane in a wedding dress he had bought her, did it finally dawn on him that he was in love. That...
...normal pressure of 6 lb. per sq. in. Both axles are pivoted so that each wheel can rise two feet without distorting the frame. There are ten forward speeds, six reverse. All four wheels are powered. In water or on marsh, traction is provided by sections of inflated hose strapped around the tires just as normal motorists strap on winter chains. In case of puncture, the tire is kept inflated by a compressor which feeds air constantly to the tube...
...braced like a camera by a quadruped of four iron pylons. On this framework the whole weight of the statue hangs. Not bronze is Liberty's skin but hand-hammered sheets of pure copper about the thickness of a silver dollar. Each sheet is anchored to an iron strap, tied with iron girders to the central skeleton (see cut). Even the nearby Black Tom explosion of 1916 did not shake it. In 50 years it has not sagged, cracked or corroded...
...paid social agitator, but that her sole purpose in coming to another State was to hold funeral over a mythical Negro's body is absurd. ... I doubt very much if she actually received from "the huskiest of the six" any blows from a mule's belly-strap. However, whether she did or not, I am only wondering why four strokes from a mule's belly-strap in Arkansas is so much more noticeable and so much more terrible than the dozens of blows from a policeman's billy in other strike areas of the country...
Taken across a field to a river bank, Preacher Williams was lashed 14 times with a mule's belly-strap. Miss Blagden's turn came next. The huskiest of the six swung the belly strap, laid four solid clouts on her back & thighs. Miss Blagden and Preacher Williams were then told never to come back to Crittenden County...