Word: toweringly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tower, one of the Admiral Graf Spee's wireless hands ticked out the warning. A couple of 5.95 were cleared-to fire across the Frenchman's bow, or just in case the boys on the Formose were fools...
...Tower of London (Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone; TIME...
...bands, bands of all-stars, bands mixing two beat and four beat men are bad. You can't have a mixture of ideas about the "proper lag" and get the swing. For unity, a really good swing band must make a football team look like the Tower of Babel...
...Tower of London (Universal) solves the problem of what to do next with a popular monster (Boris Karloff), who has already been deranged (The Lost Patrol), mummified (The Mummy), roasted alive (Frankenstein), resurrected (The Son of Frankenstein). Horror-man Karloff is now introduced to one of Hollywood's most accomplished villains (Basil Rathbone) in the cellars of the Tower of London circa 1480. There, amidst moaning victims, clanking chains and chopping blocks, Villain Rathbone (the crookbacked Richard, Duke of Gloucester) shows Monster Karloff (Mord, the club-footed constable of the Tower) how to satisfy an active homicidal mania...
...British history. The picture suggests that they might have achieved the same result with less labor by referring to Charles Dickens' A Child's History of England, since, as history, this period thriller is considerably less authentic than its elaborately spooky reproductions of London's Tower. But the battles of Tewkesbury and Bosworth with nickering horses and the knightly clang of iron against iron set a new high for realistic racket that should deafen the most demanding...