Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Royal Family in a most peculiar position. The British public has been led to hope and expect that at Ottawa a tariff wall would be thrown up around the Empire with free trade among the dominions and with the mother country. Nothing short of a royal retraction could wipe out the fact that the Empire's heir apparent had placed himself squarely in opposition to this policy and had taken a political stand...
...stopped to chat with two friends who suddenly opened fire. Questioned by Police Lieutenant McGowan, Racketeer Higgins replied: "Don't bother me, Mac. I'm sick." Just before he died he mumbled: "I've got to live. .. . Gotta straighten this out. . . . They tried to wipe out my whole family, the dirty rats." Police learned that Gangster Higgins had boasted widely of his daughter's dancing, that at least 300 people knew he would attend her performance. A search began for Gangsters Salvatore Spitale and Irving Bitz, onetime "Lindbergh emissaries." Gangster Spitale broke a golf appointment...
...lover, the guests and Lew Ayres's mother (Hedda Hopper). Besides the burgeoning juveniles, only an honest policeman (Robert Emmett O'Connor) and a ratiocinative Negro doorman stay sweet & simple. While Ayres & Clarke prattle innocently about emigrating to the island of Bali in the South Pacific, gangsters wipe out the proprietor & his wife. The honest policeman kills the gangsters. Typical hardboiled shot: Mae Clarke telling the proprietor's wife who has offered to hold Lew Ayres's money until he sobers up: "Thanks, but I haven't time to count it." Typical emotional shot...
...their dismay, the faith-healer works other and less specious miracles. In the end, instead of absconding with moneys they have collected from his patients, they become converted. They decide to stay with the faith-healer and build him a chapel. Silly shot: Chester Morris making Sylvia Sidney wipe the make-up off her face so that she will look demure...
...fight to wipe out fee-charging employment agencies throughout the world?jobs to be obtained instead from State or charitable agencies...