Word: toweringly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theory that music alone hath not sufficient box-office charm, the producers stuffed the picture with best-selling comedy commodities. In view of the Paris background, the film has still another distinction : the Eiffel Tower does not appear until the second reel...
...teaching at Indian Universities would seem to provide an almist perfect picture of what a University should not do and this account of it might well be instructive to the more extreme defenders of ivory tower academic traditions in this country...
Just inside the neutral Settlement, atop an exposed tower, the London Daily Telegraph's, ace Correspondent Philip Pembroke Stephens, who recently flew from London to Hong Kong to cover the war, watched the capture of Shanghai with seven other whites. In the ensuing lull some 20 minutes later a U. S. patrol saw blood dripping from the tower, climbed up to find Pembroke Stephens lying dead amid six crouching survivors so terrified that at first they could not believe the fighting was over and the city quiet at last after 89 days' siege. Japanese machine gun bullets...
...Rather Be Right (book by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart; music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart; produced by Sam H. Harris). Like the Tower of Babel, I'd Rather Be Right had the handicap of a tremendous buildup. Advance rumors of its superexcellence implied that its like had not been seen on Broadway in years. Written and scored by the two liveliest teams of playwrights and music writers in the U. S., its lead played by one of the most endearing veterans of the U. S. stage, I'd Rather Be Right simply...
...Ohio Penitentiary, Columbus, Inmate James Mason climbed the prison's 150-ft. water tower, remained on its catwalk 17 hours in a "sit-up" strike for parole. His reward: psychoanalysis...