Word: trove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feeble way to describe this movie's gargantuan appetite for adventure. In 90 minutes it wolfs down an Indian massacre, two murders, a barroom brawl, an earthquake, a fistfight on a cliff top and a mess of hocus-pocus dealing with the whereabouts of a fabulous treasure trove. Leading the sepia-colored scramble for gold are Ida Lupino and Glenn Ford. Kids under twelve may believe in their adventures...
...nursing hopes of hurdling the narrow barrier between them and the land of opportunity. More than 4,000 were turned back last year, as they tried to enter the U.S. illegally through the ports and coastline of Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. For smugglers, they had proved a treasure trove of desperation...
This week in London, the Royal Academy, having worked over Tate's basement trove, put the whole collection on show in its Piccadilly museum. The Academy hopes to prove the error of Scoffer Rothenstein's ways, to end what it considers a "mischievous and unseemly controversy." Rothenstein hopes gallerygoers will laugh the collection back to the cellar. In a sense, he will be on show himself. From a group study entitled The Princess Badroulbadour, painted by his father Sir William Rothenstein, the young John of 1908 will gaze, fixed and helpless, at the passing jury...
...Treasure Trove. Near Atlanta, Charles H. Farmer spotted something shiny on a creek bottom, dove in, came up with 1) a rhinestone pin, 2) a gold locket, 3) a string of pearls, 4) a gold watch chain, 5) crystal beads, 6) a Zipper shaving...
...Trove. In Minneapolis, workmen began tearing up a pavement, stopped in amazement: they had uncovered six bottles of pre-Prohibition brandy...