Word: vanished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kings' fortunes vanish into the realm of the mysterious because what a King saves up and bequeaths to his heirs is subject to no probate, no inheritance tax. Queen Victoria, having ascended the throne practically penniless, saved at least $9,000,000. Edward VII was a spendthrift. George V was as thrifty as his grandmother. How big a fortune he passed on to King Edward VIII nobody except the Royal family now knows...
...disobeying his father, Bobby's cutting his wrist, Bonnie's almost getting smashed in an automobile wreck. During the picture's two-day action the family's love and unity seem on the verge of extinction in a dozen petty antagonisms which finally vanish when a real crisis arises...
...railroad did not at once kill the old stage express. For 20 years more it did duty on minor routes, fighting highwaymen to the very end. Nor did the name Wells Fargo vanish with the last Concord. Today San Francisco's Wells Fargo Bank & Union Trust Co. is third largest in that city...
...snowy New England hilltop, winterset and blue-white under cold bright stars. Ethan (Raymond Massey) climbs to the top of it, his boots actually squeaking in the glittery surface. Pathetic little Mattie (Ruth Gordon) lies down on the sled with him and, with a whistle of wind, they vanish over the far side of the slope. How they maim themselves, instead of smashing out their lives on the big tree at the bottom as they intended, is told in an epilog...
...good repair at Vatican City is the world's most elaborate private train. An entire car is devoted to the papal chamber and throne room, with four lifesize figures of angels outside the big arched windows. By an ingenious mechanism the Throne can be caused to upend and vanish into the wall, a superb berth appearing in its place covered by a white & gold canopy. So that six Cardinals can celebrate Mass at once en route, the Papal Train has six altars sumptuously provided with cruets of water and sacrificial wine, tabernacles, lace altar cloths, candlesticks of all necessary...