Word: monster
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there much doubt that the great majority of Swedes firmly seconded Mr. Sandler's ideas. At monster rallies all over Sweden, huge collections were taken up for the Finnish cause. Women threw their jewels, men emptied their wallets into big barrels. At Stockholm's Finnish Legation, large gifts poured in. At least one Swedish physician turned a sizable fee over to Finland. Socialist Chairman Frederick Strom of the Stockholm City Council was cheered far & wide when he suggested that every Swede give one day's income...
Skyscrapers, subways, slums and slicks, seven million people from the Bronx to Coney, that's the phenomenon people call New York City. It's a world within a nation, a monster cosmopolitanism which, like most great things, defies definition. Vinton Freedley, Jr. has written, and the Dramatic Club has produced a play about New York. They have not tried to define it, but they have, within the limits of stagecraft, tried to reproduce some of its many facets. To realize the ambitions ideal they set up for themselves, the Dramatic Club has used a cast of more than...
Tower of London (Universal) solves the problem of what to do next with a popular monster (Boris Karloff), who has already been deranged (The Lost Patrol), mummified (The Mummy), roasted alive (Frankenstein), resurrected (The Son of Frankenstein). Horror-man Karloff is now introduced to one of Hollywood's most accomplished villains (Basil Rathbone) in the cellars of the Tower of London circa 1480. There, amidst moaning victims, clanking chains and chopping blocks, Villain Rathbone (the crookbacked Richard, Duke of Gloucester) shows Monster Karloff (Mord, the club-footed constable of the Tower) how to satisfy an active homicidal mania...
...there a remedy? Often, Vag realized, the "green-eyed monster" had attacked him, once with disastrous results. He smiled as he recalled that tragic childhood romance. What could be done in the future? Suddenly Vag remembered that the world's greatest dramatist had had something to say on the subject. Something world famous, in fact; something probably never equalled in the realm of dramatic expression. Vag decided to hear Professor Theodore J. Spencer at 11 o'clock today in Harvard 5, on "Othello, Moor of Venice...
...week's end, as North Star churned southward, with four feet of Penguin's, bobbed tail still hanging over the rail, Dr. Poulter was pleased with his monster's performance. Whether or not it would negotiate Antarctic ice better than it had U. S. roads, it had pulled in more publicity for an Admiral Byrd expedition than the publicity-wise Admiral himself...