Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than any of its predecessors, it adds to the usual story of native uprisings constant suspense, some rollicking humor, and incidentally an interesting characterization of Kipling's immortal water boy. Battling a band of natives who worship the goddess of blood and show their devotion by strangling some thirty thousand persons a year, are Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. These men engage in the usual pitched battles, of course, but this time skill and originality of direction make them more than mere spectacles; and more important, the leads take time out now and then for delightful humorous...
...constantly finds itself in a false position that inwardly innocent people learn to be disingenuous. . . . The system of our affections is too corrupt for them. They are bound to blunder, then to be told they cheat. In love, the sweetness and violence they have to offer involves a thousand betrayals for the less innocent. . . . The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet-when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round...
...group, in which members could keep their party ties while pledging themselves to support: 1) a firmer, anti-dictator British foreign policy; 2) acceleration of British rearmament. Immediate goal, announced Mr. Sandys, was to enlist 100,000 members. To achieve this, the meeting officially titled its organization the Hundred Thousand, set up a recruiting office in London with the Duchess of Atholl as treasurer...
...First Hundred Thousand," the valiant little British Expeditionary Force of 1914, is a name brimful of heroic associations for Britons. How effective the second Hundred Thousand will be in capturing popular imagination and support in opposing Mr. Chamberlain's policies remains to be seen...
...pave the way for a return of the Laborites to power. They foresee the possibility of keeping Mr. Chamberlain in office but surrounding him with such an anti-Fascist Cabinet of "national unity" that he would no longer be free to appease dictators. Significantly, Chairman Sandys squelched some Hundred Thousand organizers who wanted to adopt the slogan: "Chamberlain Must...