Word: twin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...legislative check up on the allegations of Admiral Magruder, that even if the United States were to build six or seven submarines a year for the next five years, this would be only "a fleet appropriate to out needs." In spite of the recent completion of the twin airplane carriers Saratoga and Lexington, the most modern vessels of their kind in the world, the United States is all of 69,000 tons behind the allotment of the disarmament conference...
...Story. The twin children of Norman Crowne are William and Emily, whereas the children of Charles Frobisher are their cousins, Trevor and Charlotte. All of them are brought up together; but almost immediately, in William and Emily, appears the wild and enticing madness that had made their father a great poet and, as many people thought even after he had been acquitted in his notorious trial, a murderer. Trevor and Charlotte are clever but a little disagreeable. They take after their father, Charles Frobisher, one of the solemn critics whom Norman Crowne despised...
...Crownes soon get used to hearing people speak as if some hereditary tragedy were certain to overtake them. After the war they live together in London where they are regarded as twin comets of disaster. Their charm is sufficient to make everybody want to know them, sufficient also to make everyone want to be in at the death of their airy and desperate career. Trevor describes them: "'Their career is as romantic as a soap bubble, and that's the most romantic thing I can think of. ... You see it drifting into all sorts of dangers and just...
...next feat, perhaps the most spectacular and sensational of all, was when Ostheimer and Fuhrer spent 36 hours without rest in climbing four peaks from the Columbia Ice-field, one of which, the North Twin, was over 12,000 feet. The party left camp one morning at 1 o'clock and returned after many hours of hardship on the ice, having used flash-lights to guide their steps during the night. It was the first complete ascent to the ice-field from the Athabaska valley...
...which the air maneuvers were pictured. The audience gulped down the plot as conventional but reliable stuff, watched with waning interest while spinning, swerving, dodging planes grew into confused monotony against a background of unpicturesque ether. Adam and Evil. Lew Cody plays both Adam Trevelyan and Adam's twin brother, Allan. Adam has wealth and a wife (Aileen Pringle); Allan is possessed of liabilities and a gold digger (Gwen Lee). The two women cannot tell the brothers apart, so one woman's husband becomes another woman's prey. Meanwhile Adam's wife, termed by the subtitle...