Word: thin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sixth time in his political career, rake-thin, hook-nosed Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, slated to succeed Stanley Baldwin as Prime Minister, stepped sedately up to the red dispatch box in the centre of the floor, fished a sheaf of papers from the Chancellor of the Exchequer's historic leather brief case, began to talk in his precise dry rasp...
Outcasts of Poker Flat (RKO). Pay dirt was running thin at Poker Flat, Calif. in 1851 until a dance hall girl gave birth to a female child in the backroom of Gambler John Oakhurst's saloon, Mr. Oakhurst (Preston Foster) acting as midwife. Because a gold strike coincided with the birth, Oakhurst called the baby "Luck" (Virginia Weidler). His whim of allowing her, at 10, the status of a poker dealer in his place brought him into conflict with Poker Flat's better elements, Rev. Samuel Wood (Van Heflin) and Schoolteacher Helen (Jean Muir). John Oakhurst tried...
...editorials during the Spanish-American and World Wars, would take back if he could an editorial upholding the guilt of Sacco & Vanzetti, "whose execution was a crime for which America lost prestige in the eyes of millions." But he makes no amendment to his early stand among the first thin ranks to declare for U. S. recognition of Russia, and the innocence of Tom Mooney. Nor has he had a change of heart over twice bolting the Republican Party, once to join Roosevelt's "Bull Moose" campaign, again in 1924 to run independently on an anti-Klan platform...
...luminous on the fantastic seascape of the banks as lightning on a ship's masthead, they make a fine one. So magnificent are its sweep and excitement, so harmonious its design, that Captains Courageous ranks above most current cinematic efforts, offers its credentials for admission to the thin company of cinema immortals. It is during the We're Here's race to Gloucester that the interwoven stories come to their climax. After a night of reckless seamanship, both ships are standing clear, close-hauled on the port tack, all sails set and drawing, with...
Wary members of the student body spent most of the forenoon telephoning the Hygiene Building for verification of the circular. In each instance the authorities, their patience wearing thin, replied that the whole thing was a "phony...