Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany, Defendant van der Lubbe was beheaded, the others acquitted. In Judgment Day, all but one of the judges are about to be bullied into a blanket verdict of guilty when the Dictator (House Jameson) appears, encounters a sudden revolt, is shot dead. Even more boisterous and declamatory than Pulitzer Prize-winner Rice's We, the People, this sharply written melodrama suffers from one defect : real news events, when literally re-created in the theatre, tend to sound like burlesques...
Upstairs Mrs. Speer was putting their three young children to bed when she heard a sudden crash downstairs, like an exploding light bulb. When she got downstairs she found her husband with blood streaming from his arm and breast. There were two jagged holes in the window...
...beautiful specimen of the unpopular sponger, spent a weekend with them. Brenda amused herself by being nice to him. One thing led to another and soon Brenda found herself having a full-time affair with the not-too-enthusiastic Beaver, while innocent Tony moped for her at home. The sudden death of their little son brought Brenda into the open. She announced to the stunned Tony that she was in love with Beaver, wanted a divorce and a lot of alimony-so much, in fact, that Tony would have to sell his beloved ancestral estate. No fool when faced with...
...hours. Said he afterward: "I had to watch women I'd met and danced with drop off one by one and hear their desperate and familiar voices pleading. Finally there was a perfect rain of people. A hundred or more came leaping over the side to escape a sudden burst of flames. They hit one another in the descent. Many sank like stones...
That race will go down in yachting history. Yankee crossed the starting line to windward but Rainbow crept past her on the first tack. A sudden puff of wind tore Yankee's Genoa jib. By the time she had replaced it, Rainbow had increased her lead. When the boats rounded the buoy 15 miles from the start, Rainbow was leading by 1 min. 34 sec. Coming back both set parachute spinnakers and Yankee began to gain. For 15 miles she inched up on Rainbow. A half mile from the finish, her bow was even with Rainbow's mast...