Word: thenceforth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...airmen were shaking their heads over a contraption as outlandish as "Bushnell's Turtle," a fat monoplane that was mostly wing. To their surprise the "Batwing" not only established a new construction principle (internally braced wings), but became the first U. S. commercial monoplane. Thenceforth Inventor Stout, unlike his frustrated ancestor, found backers for other queer-sounding projects...
...Happily pursuing him out on the range, Maisie is resourcefully wrangling her man with a healthy woman's zest when into the picture pops an incompatible couple from the East, laden with a love triangle and a lot of other well-worn cinema luggage. What goes on thenceforth is not in Maisie's line...
Invitation to Happiness (Paramount). Prize fighters are not numerous, but the recurrent movies about the marital problems of prize fighters who marry above them have attained national significance. Most piquant of the recent lot, Invitation to Happiness bridges the social gap in a one-reel leap, thenceforth takes up where most palooka-heiress movies leave off, to see what may happen to such an alliance in, say, ten years...
...penetrating "smell of icebergs." Soon the bergs showed up, scant hundreds of yards off the Empress' bows. A cold fog settled down over the liner. The escort cruisers anxiously nosed ahead, and on the Empress the siren sounded mournful blasts at intervals as it slowed to a halt. Thenceforth Vice-Admiral Sir Dudley North allowed the Royal flotilla to proceed only with extreme caution. In four-and-a-half days it advanced only 172 miles. On the Empress, George and Elizabeth invited all hands to movie shows of travel films and Walt Disney cartoons, got into a discussion over...
Douglas naturally was delighted, and thenceforth Shields, Pierce and Hanes led the revolt from the inside while Douglas stormed the walls...