Word: summoning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cinema) spent three years on The Adventures of Prince Achmed. The story is tenuous. Achmed makes love, goes to war, combats a sorcerer in settings and among characters taken from the Arabian Nights. Aladdin is there, though now he has to light his lamp instead of rubbing it to summon genii. There are the Sultan, the Magic Horse, the fairy Peri-Banov, the Princess Dinarzade. Like contortionism and sword-swallowing, the picture is remarkable principally because its technique was difficult, but it is a nice fairy story. Good shots among the 300,000 scenes that had to be built with...
...Nothing Mayor. Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker's public reaction to the vice investigation was, for the most part, passive. He did summon civic leaders to City Hall to warn them that the wholesale charges against his police department threatened a complete breakdown of police morale and the return of a "wide-open" town. Otherwise he did nothing in his most do-nothing manner and Tammany's joke of the week was: ''Well, we gave New York the best judges money could...
...says: Close in the background must be an eminent banker or financier. This gentleman's dollars are as important as his endorsement. Until one is one's party's choice, one must not only be privately financed but prepared to show that one could summon large sums for the party coffers. And no great banker's endorsement, certifying to Business one's soundness as a leader, is worth much if it is unaccompanied by a substantial cash investment. This cash must not be too obvious too early, however, as in the 1920 case of Leonard...
...Council further recommends to the Sophomore Class officers that they appoint a Vigilance Committee of 20 men. In cases of flagrant unwillingness to abide by sensible traditions, this Committee shall have power to summon Freshmen before the Council. --The Princetonian...
...over it, he dove his Fleet biplane to 2,000 ft., crashed into the treetops near Bennington, Vt. Painfully injured. Goldsborough's companion, Donald Mockler, publicity-man for Richfield Oil Corp. tried to lift the wreckage that pinned Goldsborough, then stumbled through forest and swamp for five hours to summon help. Twelve hours later searchers located the plane, extricated Goldsborough. They carried him eight miles to Bennington where he died next day?his 20th birthday...