Word: hairbreadth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Comedy. The Dies Committee hearings made a rip-roaring Texas melodrama full of spies, plots, trap doors, enemy agents, hairbreadth escapes, made thunderous by howls of pain from the injured, cries of outrage from the accused-a breathless drama of pure Americanism versus nobody quite knew what, packed with sordid procedures, damnable outrages, cries of "Unhand-me-Martin-Dies!" from radicals, and "Let that poor girl go!" from liberals-and all galloping over the cliff at the end of each installment. The Smith Committee hearings were drawing-room comedy...
Once more Justice Dineen adjourned the case. Safely down to earth again, the Black Eagle drew breath after his latest hairbreadth escape...
Charley d'Autremont played the best game of the career in the futile attempt to stop the Tiger onslaught. On two separate occasions he and Bill Edgar made hairbreadth saves of shots at the Crimson goal when Penson had been thrown to the ground in the melee...
...Heart of the North, not to be confused with Spawn of the North (TIME, Sept. 5), Warner Bros, dumped 1,500 Ibs. of dye into the studio lake to make it blue enough to serve as a satisfactory Technicolor background for innumerable fights, canoe trips, duellos and hairbreadth escapes of a lively, oldfashioned, fir-tree melodrama. Typical shot: Dick Foran and Russell Simpson wrestling on the edge of a cliff, while Allen Jenkins watches from the underbrush...
...murdering the counterspy, by the members of the ring, who soon find out that he is on their trail, and by a charming young lady (Madeleine Carroll) whom he picks up in the course of a wild night on the Scottish moors, Hannay plunges through a series of hairbreadth escapes and escapades, some of them horrifying, some of them extraordinarily funny. The funniest, possibly, is the one in which, mistaken at a political meeting for the speaker of the evening, he makes himself the hero of the occasion by an address composed of foolish generalities. The most exciting is that...