Word: limitless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Capitalizing on recent interest in movie history, 20th Century Fox has delved back into the files and brought out two scenes of slap-stick that make modern movie comedy look like a first-class funeral. The first includes Buster Keaton, Alice Faye, an unnamed villain, and an apparently limitless supply of creamy custard pies. There is a certain emotional release about a custard pie flying through the air destined for some carefully made-up face. It is a shame that the idea has been abandoned, for many modern pictures might be livened up immeasurably with the sudden appearance...
Last week King George and Queen Elizabeth left Toronto and the long-settled Europeanized East of Canada for the dark forests, sparkling lakes, limitless plains and rugged mountains of the West and purely American Canada. But the welcome they received, whether in small towns or cities, was, if anything, more sincere, more enthusiastic than they had previously experienced. As the royal party rolled across the country, there rose a militant nationalism, a recognition that the British monarchy is as much Canadian as British. All this must have been gratifying to the King and Queen, as well as the gentlemen...
After the War he thought he would be a country doctor in a Swiss valley. "I would love my valley," he said, "and keep it in order." But it dawned on him that a valley in Switzerland was too narrow for his ambitions, and he returned to the limitless world of scholarship. He has traveled in almost every European country, has studied their medical systems, histories, social systems...
...President," said the Christian Century, "there apparently seemed left only one appeal with sufficient emotional content, sufficient power to paralyze men's rational processes, to carry his program for limitless armament spending through Congress.*. . . Every Christian voice should immediately and in unmistakable terms let Congress and the President know that this attempt to drag religion through the hell of a new holy war is resented and repudiated by the churches. . . . This [is] revelation of his utter lack of comprehension of the mind of at least the Protestant churches...
...other three routes, none as heavily-used as the Silk Road, are: 1) the 1,800-mile Sian-Urga motor road, once a caravan trail across the limitless sands of the Gobi Desert, 2) the 1,350-mile rail and road route from Kunming down to British Burma, and 3) the newly-built Chinese railroad from Kunming to Laokai, which connects with the French Indo-China railroad. Hundreds of miles of other new roads connecting these main routes to many parts of the new "New China" have also been built...