Word: toweringly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...didn't charge my neighbors any admission fee. Anyone's free to come and take a look that wants to, and if the nudists board up the fence, I'm going to build an observation tower 60 ft. high. What I want to do is to break up these indecent goings-on. I've got tired of looking over there and any way I look finding my eyes resting on a naked man or woman...
...trick photography and downstairs orgies; is the basic DeMille formula. In Palestine, The Crusades gets its second wind and builds up to two of the liveliest climaxes in its director's career. The first arrives when Saladin (Ian Keith), the Saracen leader, kidnaps Berengaria. Richard hurries a siege tower, ladders and catapults to the walls of Acre, from which Saladin's soldiers shower arrows, spears and boiling oil. The second comes when, finding that Saladin is not in Acre but Jerusalem, the cavalry of the two armies meet in a head-on collision on the edge...
...ball team during the World Series of the 'go's against Boston. Two years later he enlisted in the U. S. Navy, thus made his way to the Paris exposition of 1900. Pride of that exposition was the tallest thing in the world, M. Eiffel's tower. Jules Charbneau's taste ran in the opposite direction. He bought with his first savings a miniature medal, a jeweled bird and a very small meerschaum pipe, cornerstones of his present collection...
...swimming instructor. Their father, Fred Hoerger, went to Miami Beach to be general super intendent for Carl Fisher Properties. Their mother, née Bilsbarrow, arrived there after paddling a canoe from St. Louis to New Orleans (1,260 mi.) in 42 days, al most won the national tower-diving championship in 1920. She teaches her children the family specialty by harnessing them in a belt with swivel joints and making them practice until they know the proper movements of each dive. Mary Hoerger, at 8, placed ninth in the senior Olympic trials, in which her entry was accepted only...
Tullio Carminati is an Italian nobleman who meets Ida Lupino on top of the Eiffel Tower from which he is doing his best to jump because Miss Ellis, a cafe singer, has refused to marry him. James Blakeley, looking for Ida Lupino, his fiancee, enlists the help of Lynne Overman, magnificent as a member of the Sûreté. Things build to a spacious and impressively scored wedding night in a chateau with a large cast of serfs singing nuptial choruses regardless of the fact that neither woman is with the right man, and neither is married...