Word: stripped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taking any punitive action. Playing close to the sidelines instead of in the middle of the official field, the Locarno Powers, by means of a British White Paper, had stated the terms on which they would settle the issue of Germany's treaty rupture: 1) occupation of a strip of the Rhineland frontier by British and Italian troops during the period of negotiation; 2) cessation of all German military activities in the Rhineland; 3) adjudication by the World Court of the German charge that the Franco-Soviet mutual assistance treaty violates the Locarno Pact; 4) an international conference...
With his patient under anesthetic, he loosens a strip of conjunctiva, about a quarter of an inch wide, from the upper part of the eyeball. This is to function later as a bandage to hold the graft in position until it takes hold of the host...
Plentiful enough are the "bad boys" of the screen, but in a fashion-parade Hollywood Bette Davis alone dares to strip herself of glamour, to forget camera-angles, and rely on ability alone to succeed in unattractive roles...
BING Crosby was christened Harry Lillis, but no one dares call him Lillis now. He got the Bing because in his first breeches he always asked to have the Bingvilie Bugle comic strip read to him. He entered Gonzage University (Spokane) after a taste of running away from home, and did what theatrical people in college seem to do, organized an orchestra and paid more attention to drums and clarinet than philosophy and religion...
King of Burlesque (Twentieth-Cen-tury-Fox). When Warner Baxter, a promoter of strip acts who aspires to more artistic realms, buys himself a society wife (Mona Barrie), it is a foregone conclusion that he will not profit by the bargain. What is not a foregone conclusion about King of Burlesque is the sudden meteoric pace it strikes when Mr. Baxter starts his comeback. The situation at this point is Baxter down & out, with Alice Faye, lead in his old burlesque show, seeking a way to help him without making herself known. She and Jack Oakie hire a sandwichman...