Word: thin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rivals. Pictures about which MGM salesmen heard most in Hollywood last fortnight were Kim, co-starring Freddie Bartholomew and Robert Taylor, and Idiot's Delight starring Clark Gable. Other major MGM ventures will be Girl of the Golden West (Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy) ; The Return of the Thin Man (William Powell and Myrna Loy). Total MGM product will be 52 pictures at the most. On MGM's list but not yet assigned are Silas Marner, As Thousands Cheer, Tish, Bright Girl, Pride and Prejudice...
...late ith Century piracy was a flourishing business-not only in the Spanish Main but off the North American coast, in the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean and the East Indies. And the line between pirate and privateer was as thin as the line between hijacker and bootlegger. The scheme that led Captain Kidd to the gallows, according to Author Wilkins, was a technically legal venture in privateering. And it was not Kidd's idea in the first place. Robert Livingstone of Albany and Lord Bellomont, Governor of New York, concocted the scheme, got Kidd a letter of marque...
Like Gone With The Wind and Boy in Blue, Bugles Blow No More strings its beads of action on the thin thread of a love story. The scene is Richmond, second capital of the Confederacy; from Secession Night to Appomattox. In 1861 Richmond was gay, prosperous, confident, the established capital of an established civilization. Between Mildred Wade, daughter of an aristocrat, and Brose Kirby, a clerk in her father's tobacco warehouse, was a social abyss nothing short of an earthquake could wipe out. But it was earthquake weather, and both of them felt it. Before Brose marched...
Spaniards in the Rightist ranks hate all their foreign colleagues, but have found the thin ranks of the Irish Brigade easiest to impose on. In the frontal attack on Madrid recently the Irish Brigade suddenly found itself under heavy rifle and machine-gun fire from its own rear, suffered heavy casualties, had to fight its way back through the Rightist ranks...
...hearts, it is natural that the victory should go to one which despises all existing forms and institutions and occupies itself with other things. . . . [But] the moment there arises a new principle of political law which can win the unstinted enthusiasm of a social group, fascism will vanish into thin...