Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seldom has Cecil B. De Mille recaptured so successfully the sweep of panoramic action which was his hallmark in the silent days. Often his cameras, handled by four of Hollywood's topflight cinematographers, clinch the pictorial language of the plains in brief, consummate idioms: a stagecoach ribboning down the long slant of a prairie shoulder; the Cheyennes charging up a shallow river riding so evenly their ranks look like a drift of mist; braves in war paint raiding a cabin where two women are alone; a herd of buffalo, with a scout's horse among them grazing...
...removing its cargo of gold, they agree to run away from home together to carry the news to Lloyd's. Nelson breaks the pact to go to sea as a midshipman on his uncle's man-o'-war. Blake goes alone to London, where a chimney sweep (D'Arcy Corrigan) directs him to Lloyd's coffee house. The news he brings gets him the friendship of Insurance Broker John Julius Angerstein (Sir Guy Standing), a foothold in the ring of marine underwriters...
...Princeton's Chick Kaufman. Field Judge Dan Kelly ruled illegal interference, put the ball on Dartmouth's r-yd. line from where Bill Lynch got Princeton's second touchdown on the next play. Loudly booed by the Dartmouth stands, the decision cost their team a clean sweep over the Big Three, ended a sloppy Princeton season with...
...halves at the Yale Bowl today when the Crimson band takes the field. With blood in the collective eye the band sternly declares that it intends to knock the "L" out of Yale. But more than that, having knocked the "L" out of Yale the Crimson bandsmen will "sweep the field with an ever increasing "H" to gobble up a dwindling...
...Rhode Island, Democrats two years ago won control of the State Senate for the first time since the Civil War. Last week Democrats finally made a clean sweep by electing not only State officers, but a completely Democratic delegation to Congress. At the same time, Republicans regained control of the State Senate...