Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Upper World (Warner). Tedious in getting under way, this story of a rich man's troubles contrives a measure of suspense as soon as it introduces a double murder and a man hunt. A railroad tycoon (Warren William), neglected by his ambitious wife (Mary Astor), takes up with an honest little burlesque actress (Ginger Rogers). One night he calls on her just as her oldtime lover is attempting to force her to begin blackmail. Of the two shootings which follow, William performs one in obvious self-defense. After his quiet departure, the job looks like murder and suicide...
Retractable spoilers are curved structures extending up from the upper surface of the wing, which when combined with "air brake'' flaps, make lateral control easier...
...constant struggle of German v. Russian influence. Latvia is mostly an agricultural country. The Letts are an amiable, broad-faced people. Russian for more than 100 years, the country was dominated for 700 years before that by German barons, holding the Lettish peasants as serfs. Today the upper classes and "best people" are still mostly of German descent...
...family that gradually emerged from Author Scott's scrutiny of these nameless photographs, none at first sight was either attractive or unusual. The father, upper middleclass, Boer War vintage, was spoiled, conservative, selfish, in trade (kippers) but with the pretensions of a gentleman. His wife's buxomness had hardened into armor plate. Tilly, who died young, became the family saint. Cora married a doctor, went to London. Meg simmered and soured into spinsterhood. Ethel, the best of the lot, rushed into marriage with a beef-eating young naval officer. Anemic Bertram got a job in India, toyed with...
...mediation, no just resentment can be aroused. But when, as in the present case, it becomes increasingly evident that the unions are permitting themselves to be led by Communists and other discredited radicals intent only on fomenting trouble, the antagonism of the general public is inevitably aroused. Between the upper and nether millstones of mob violence and popular antipathy, reason stands small chance of effecting a just settlement, and both Labor and Capital stand to be the losers...