Word: away
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...actors (who otherwise play their roles straight) have made a game of altering their lines if the crowd beats them to the draw. Thus the villain, when led away by the police, pauses to say "Foiled!" He was almost licked one night when the crowd shouted not only "Foiled!" but "Baffled!" "Beaten!" "Frustrated!" "Outwitted!" "Trapped!" "Flummoxed!" He waited until the wits were through, then hissed: "Stymied...
...night of Dec. 11, 1938 it was cluttered with old sets accumulated during 20 years of movie making. These sets were laboriously filled with waste and other inflammable materials, well soaked with kerosene. As darkness fell, the $26,000 bonfire roared sky-high while seven Technicolor cameras ground away. The first scenes of Gone With the Wind had been shot. A flat representing the Atlanta warehouse district was constructed in front of the old sets. In the light of the dying flames Myron Selznick, Hollywood's No. 1 agent, stepped over to his brother. With him was his British...
...made for Louis XIV, or sit in its superbly upholstered chairs. From behind ropes the public will view these and the Sevres porcelain, the Boucher tapestries, the rich Louis XVI paneling, the rock-crystal chandeliers, the china figures so delicate that dust is not wiped off them but whiffed away by a gently pumped bellows...
...London Metal Exchange at more than ?230 per ton. She also upped world production quotas (British-controlled through the International Tin Committee) to 120% of standard. Britain doesn't mean to have a tin shortage in wartime, doesn't mean to give it away because her pound has fallen. Untied, British tin prices last week flew up to ?275 per ton (equivalent to 48? a Ib.), then settled back...
...Golden, Colo., suicidal Edward Madden climbed a tree, tied a rope to a branch, fastened the other end around his neck, and jumped. The rope broke, Edward Madden staggered away in a daze, died of a fractured skull when his head struck a boulder...