Word: distressed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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London's Critics Circle began raising funds for a last appeal-to the House of Lords. The goal: $28,000, the extra $8,000 to cover costs if Miss Robertson should lose again. Out went a distress message signed by five members. In their zeal, the critics hinted that Miss Robertson had been a victim of M-G-Malice. The studio promptly threatened libel action...
...Antipas to an Arabian princess, Arnon. Herod, fearing that the Romans are going to overrun his country, has arranged the marriage with the King of Arabia, to seal a treaty uniting these ancient enemies. The marriage works out badly. Town life and the elaborate ceremonials of the court distress the Arab girl brought up in freedom on the desert; and when Antipas, bored, takes her to Rome, she is disgusted by his dissipations. Their daughter Fara, however, is beautiful, a favorite of both Arabs and Jews. When Antipas divorces his wife and sends wife & child back to the desert...
...Sign. On the way home from dinner, Sandino, a Freemason, was seized by a group of armed men, and hustled away. Soon after, a Guardia officer called the barracks, reported that Sandino had given the Masonic sign of distress. Freemason Somoza, unmoved, roared: "Carry out your orders!" At La Aviación field, on the southeast edge of Managua, guns cracked. Sandino is buried, say Nicaraguans, just under the runway TACA planes...
...alarm box for ladies in distress which fits pocket or purse was advertised by a New York department store: "Though we hope you'll never have to use it, if you should sense, danger, simply flick a little button and the Beau Alarm releases a shrill, penetrating siren shriek that positively cannot be stopped until it runs down and that can be heard for blocks around...
...escape alive from the fastest planes, the pilot will need some sort of detachable "capsule." One possibility is a streamlined cylinder built into the belly of the plane. The pilot in distress would crawl into it and pull a handle. A parachute would then open and drag the cylinder out of the rear of the plane. A more elaborate device (kinder to the pilot) is a detachable cockpit that can be blown free of the plane by a set of explosive bolts...