Word: swarm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stalin had not suddenly become a crackpot. He merely felt able, with U. S. recognition now safe under his belt, to take sweeping, super-drastic measures of defense against Japan. The best defense, he reasoned, is to make bleak, sparsely populated Siberia so attractive to Russians that they will swarm there with enthusiasm and, once established, fight to defend their homes. The tragic error of Nicholas II was to suppose that he could beat Japan with soldiers from European Russia who could not understand why Asiatic soil 4,000 miles from their homes was worth fighting for. Wiser than Nicholas...
...Loves Me Not (adapted by Howard Lindsay from Edward Hope's Saturday Evening Post novel; Dwight Deere Wiman and Tom Weatherly, producers). In 1928 Princeton University permitted Hollywood cameramen, Director Frank Wright Tuttle (Yale 1915) and Actor Charles ("Buddy") Rogers (University of Kansas) to swarm over real Princeton bedrooms, bleachers, dining halls for a "real" college cinema. Nevertheless the resultant Varsity showed the usual Hollywood misconception of U. S. college life...
...Grant's Minister to Belgium: indictment of both by the Adams County grand jury acting on secret new evidence. Sympathetic last year to the defendants, Natchez this year turned against them, revolted by their grotesque behavior in appearing in theatres, permitting sightseers, at 25? a head, to swarm through their ramshackle plantation, to which the Mississippi Central R. R. ran excursion trains. Each was released pending trial on $1,000 bail...
...ability; this genus of fake reaches its ultimate development in "The Prizefighter and the Lady." To begin with, Max Baer is cast in the leading role; then one finds wadded in here and there such notables as Jack Dempsey, Primo Carnera, Jess Willard, Jeffries, Strangler Lewis, and a positive swarm of middleweight, lightweight, anyweight champions, past and present. It goes without saying that most of these worthies appear for about ten seconds, and are barely visible to the naked eye; nevertheless, they are in the picture. Strangely enough, Max Baer as Stove Morgan, plays his part with a certain amount...
...Howard, who has given the gentlemanly Commandant (Paul Lukas) his word not to try to escape, tricks the gate guard down from his parapet, kills him with his own gun, mans the parapet machine-gun. Thus covered the other prisoners stampede the remaining guards, bowl over the gates and swarm to the nearby airdrome. All together they fly home while Hero Howard stays at his parapet post until blown up, thus giving his wife to Fairbanks and keeping his word to the Commandant...