Word: tears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coals. Money has poured into valueless jobs like water over a dam. The Florida canal has been openly repudiated in Congress, leaving the laborers to wonder where their next few dollars are coming from. Cash must be spent on a certain day or not at all. Robert Moses must tear down the Casino by June thirtieth, or leave it forever a blight on the landscape of Central Park...
From the opening blare of trumpets (8.20) to the final tear-laden fadeout (11.29) the picture maintains a level of fabulous lavishness which bears aureate witness to the accepted rumor that the Goldwyn boys spent $500,000 an hour on this supreme effort. The saga of Ziegfeld commences at the Chicago World's Fair, where the master is offering the muscles of the mighty Sandow. Even at this early stage in his development "Ziggie" realizes that his main theme is a rhapsody on the theatrical potentialities of the female form. He brings Anna Held to America and makes...
General Hagood's remedy for existing ills seems very sensible and constructive, but, of course, the whole affair will only serve to tear down confidence in our Congress and our Army high command instead of serving the worthy purpose which it should have served...
...before the killing, that, when a neighbor ordered them off his land, they had replied that they would leave if P. S. C. told them to. As for the shooting, John Crempa stuck to the story he had told at the time. He said the deputies had fired a tear-gas bomb through his parlor window, shot down his wife when she rushed out with hands raised. Then, he admitted, he had gone back to get his old Army revolver, but it had jammed when he tried to fire it. His daughter Kamelia had fired some shots later...
...would Germany be doing? She would be rearming, strengthening herself militarily; economically; politically. Ten years and she would leap at the throat of France like a mad yet desperate dog, ready to rend from her her very life, or, if that were impossible, as much as she could safely tear off and carry away. The non-aggression pact would see the fate of many another treaty which has become inconvenient to German aspirations and intolerable to the German General Staff...