Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hrer is permitted to have Aryan housemaids (TIME, Nov. 25, 1935)> was throwing the biggest Red party of the year for Ambassador & Mrs. Davies and the Ambassador's 21-year-old daughter Emlen. The 50 pieces of Davies hand luggage and the 30 trunks were dispatched to the train by the Ambassador's two male secretaries (one a nephew...
Electrical communications have made carriers, with freak exceptions, obsolete. The lively sport of live-pigeon shooting is now generally illegal. The decline of the pigeon's utility has stimulated pigeon breeding as a sport. Leaving out pigeon racers, who breed, train and fly homing pigeons, and professional squab farmers, who rear pigeons for the table, there are more than 17,000 pigeon fanciers in the U. S. whose hobby is raising pigeons for shows. Last week, 8,000 fanciers and spectators and about half that many birds, worth $50,000, were in the State Armory at Peoria...
Eight years earlier but more advanced in technique was "The Great Train Robbery," genesis of all wild westerns. For the first time the possibilities of the camera are exploited and it is allowed to move about and follow the characters' actions. This was one of those first films where some audiences were known to get up and run from in front when a train was seen approaching...
Other revivals in yesterday's installment included "A Trip to the Moon" produced in 1902, "The Great Train Robbery" of 1903, "Faust" of 1907, and Sarah Bernhardt in "Queen Elizabeth" released in 1911. This series gave some idea of the beginnings of the film industry, when the camera was held in one position, and the characters moved back and forth in front of it, never approaching or receding, thus giving the effect of the legitimate stage. "Queen Elizabeth" was the last and most highly developed of this type and since it was smoother and clearer the acting technique could...
Jean Sennevilliers, after his mobilization orders came, worked most of the night at his quarry and did odd jobs around the house, then caught the last train out of Lille. It was months before his family learned that the train had been attacked by Uhlans and Jean killed. Fannie, his wife, had a German soldier billeted in her cottage, and at last, because it seemed the natural thing to do. she let him take her husband's place. Then the German went to the trenches to be killed, and when Fannie bore his baby the village was willing...