Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...myself could scarcely believe that such things could occur in a twentieth century civilization." He then explained that he had ordered Ambassador Hugh Wilson home from Berlin not by way of formal recall, but to gain "a first-hand picture."* His statement of U. S. abhorrence of Hitler's pogroms was one of the strongest ever directed by a U. S. President at a "friendly" power. Later, White House Secretary Steve Early explained that it was intended to apply to outrages upon Catholics as well as Jews...
...Castings: Don Ameche as Alexander Graham Bell (Twentieth Century-Fox); Bette Davis as Queen Elizabeth in Elizabeth the Queen, as Henriette in All this, and Heaven too, and as the nun in The Miracle (Warner Brothers); 90 midgets in The Wizard of Oz (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
...turmoils, so Sixty Glorious Years re-creates the calmly splendid pageant of its great days with the dignity they deserve. Good sequence: Victoria giving her blessing to the betrothal of her eldest daughter and Prince Frederick William of Prussia-whose son is Germany's ex-Kaiser. Submarine Patrol (Twentieth Century-Fox) shows the U. S. Navy in a strange new light. Heretofore seen on the screen as background for Dick Powell's singing, James Cagney's impudence. Hermes Pan's dance routines and Robert Young's football playing, the Navy in Submarine Patrol has suffered...
Also Showing Just Around the Corner (Twentieth Century-Fox). Shirley Temple. Bill Robinson, Franklin Pangborn and Charles Farrell in a gentle little comedy designed to explain the facts of the Depression to the youngest generation and to prove that for the cinema's No. i child actress, box-office oblivion is still far down the road...
More than one hundred scientists from all parts of the country will meet today and tomorrow in the twentieth meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Headquarters will be at the Jefferson Physical Laboratory and the Continental Hotel, Cambridge...