Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with Cary Grant, Constance Bennett and Roland Young tells the story of two amusing reprobates who acquire the rather disconcerting habit of shuffling off this mortal coil at will. Mr. Grant and Miss Bennett resolve to do one good deed before they knock at the pearly gates, deciding to transform Mr. Young, America's foremost Babbit into America's number one play-boy. Combining the photographic tricks of "The Invisible Man" with a new freshness entirely its own, the film rates as tops in humor; the only adverse criticism is that perhaps "Topper" is a little too much...
...spoke in German, not extempore as usual but reading. "Comrades! . . . We shall never forget that Germany was not among the nations which imposed sanctions against us! ... Germany has awakened. ... I do not know when Europe will awake, for secret forces not unknown to us are at work striving to transform a civil war [Spain's] into a world conflagration. ... In answer to the question posed by the whole world, 'What will be the outcome of the meeting in Berlin, war or peace?' We-Der Führer and myself- reply in a loud voice 'PEACE...
...almost invariably, excruciatingly polite no matter what their feelings, they occasionally break into such plain-&-fancy cussing as "Thou concave-eyed and mentally bed-ridden offspring of a bald-seated she-dog!" Their chief delight, however, is in apt aphorisms: ''Two resolute men acting in concord may transform an Empire, but an ordinarily resourceful duck can escape from a dissentient rabble"; "To regard all men as corrupt is wise, but to attempt to discriminate among their various degrees of iniquity is both foolish and discourteous...
...third biggest maker of drilling equipment in the land. Consideration in the deal was 108,402 shares of U. S. Steel common stock, then worth $16,000,000. Set up as a holding company for this stock was a company named Pittsburgh United Corp., whose principal function was to transform Big Steel's dividends into dividends on Pittsburgh United's 58.212 shares of preferred, 389,963 shares of common. Unhappily for the onetime owners of Oil Well Supply Co., this function soon became an empty one because Big Steel's dividends stopped...
...element of conflict, without which no news story is great, lay between the reverent, laborious effort of the British people to stage a tremendous spectacle and perform a solemn ritual without any hitch, harm or boggle, and the implacable forces of Chance, innocent or vicious, which might suddenly transform their great drama into farce or tragedy, as a little spark did last fortnight at Lakehurst...