Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their he-man talents in Lives of a Bengal Lancer. Although the plot demands that Filipinos be portrayed as terrified by Moro juramentados (dreadnought Mohammedans to whom killing a Christian is a sure passport to heaven), a few such scenes were deleted by Producer Goldwyn, at the request of Commonwealth President Manuel Quezon. Excellent shots: Moros catapulting from trees over a stockade to steal ammunition; Canavan encountering the head of a companion (Broderick Crawford) who encountered some Moros in the jungle...
...British Commonwealth...
...Brewster will be glad, I'm sure, and certainly interested, to know that the Commonwealth & Southern System put its objective rate formula into effect in 1932, which was prior to the TVA Act effective in Alabama in 1933, so that's that, and then some...
...matter of fact, the k.w.h. rate of the Commonwealth & Southern's Northern properties, which I think are largely steam, are slightly lower than the rates of its Southern properties, while their average is the lowest in the country, I believe...
...world-girdling domain of palm & pine upon which the sun never sets and in which the people call themselves Bahamians or Rhodesians, New Zealanders or Canadians, but are at heart Englishmen first, last and always, is properly and politely called the British Commonwealth of Nations. In wartime, it is the British Empire. No test applied to its unity could be more certain of positive reaction than the test of Hitlerism: autarchic despotism v. the birthright of freeborn Britons. The British Empire's far-flung parts approached that test last week in different ways. Alphabetically...