Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life contains moments when his whereabouts, if later questioned, would be hard to prove. Lady Dearden (Loretta Young) agrees to pay a blackmailer ?2,000 for letters written by Sir Alan Dearden (Franchot Tone) to his onetime mistress. At her rendezvous with the blackmailer Lady Dearden encounters two tourists. When, with Sir Alan Dearden as prosecutor, one of the tourists goes on trial for pushing the other one off a cliff, this chance meeting makes Lady Dearden a key witness; but because her testimony would reveal her deal with the blackmailer, she postpones giving it. When she finally talks...
...school, concerning code letters, the Simplon Express, diplomats in Geneva and a beautiful dancer (Rosita Moreno) who gives her admirers knockout drops. The courier (Phillips Holmes) whose job is to deliver a message on which the peace of Europe depends, succeeds in doing so, aided by a young female tourist (Mae Clarke) and not too seriously hampered by the head of the spy ring (Irving Pichel...
...writer named Carl Taylor was murdered by his house boy, it was suggested that the killing was in retribution for an article written by Taylor on the Penitentes and subsequently published in Today. Nevertheless, in recent years the Penitentes have been photographed, and on Good Friday many a tourist in New Mexico goes "Penitente-hunting," to be foiled only if the brothers conclude their Lenten observances in the dead of night or in the most remote districts...
...Willard Beatty seemed well fitted for his job. In reservation schools Director Beatty will encourage the study of Indian arts, customs and languages, in addition to "pale face learning." The typically Progressive "project system" of education will be applied chiefly to the molding of pottery and weaving of blankets, tourist trades in which Indians are protected by a Federal law that only goods actually manufactured by Indians can be labeled 'Indian...
...fight, Promoter Jacobs took a hurried glance at what he later described as "a bodyguard of six machine-gunners" sent to meet his plane, promptly decided that conditions in Cuba were too unsettled for major prizefight ventures, postponed Louis v. Gastanaga indefinitely, returned to New York. The Cuban Tourist Commission termed his statements "outrageous," threatened to bring them to the attention of the U. S. Secretary of State. The Cuban Boxing Commission suspended Promoter Jacobs for six months, fined him $500. Havana Promoter Samuel Tolon, who was to have been his partner, promised to sue Promoter Jacobs...