Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Last fortnight Edyth B. Gray, of Groton, Conn., Uncas descendant, started suit for $1,000,000 against the State of Connecticut and the city of Norwich, on the ground that the royal burying plot, now reduced to 16 acres, had been dese crated by the removal of tombstones, the erection of a Masonic temple, high pres sure real estate development...
Through the coffee houses of gossiping Vienna spread a rumor that handsome Prince von Starhemberg, fired by the triumphs of his friend, "Handsome Adolf" Hitler, in Germany, has a Heimwehr plot up his sleeve to doublecross the Seipel group which has given him the Ministry of Interior, hopes to manage the election of so many Heimwehr men that he himself will become No. 1 Austrian...
...horseracer, poloist, Long Island socialite, president oi Pinkerton's National Detective Agency; as the result of mustard-gassing in the War; at the Presbyterian Hospital, Manhattan. Pinkerton's first got fame before the Civil War when Allan Pinkerton, a bluff Scotch cooper, unearthed & pre-vented a plot to assassinate Lincoln on the way to his first inauguration. That Allan Pinkerton formed for Lincoln the first national secret service. Since then, three Pinkertons have headed the agency, made it largest in the world. Possible next president: Robert Allan Pinkerton (just out of Harvard), son of the late president, great...
...plot is swift, kaleidoscopic. Trapper Hero saves Dance-Hall Heroine from a fate worse than Death. Villain, a smooth little thing with a grin nothing can eradicate, admires Hero's prowess in the ensuing free-for-all, goes into partnership with him in the trapping business. Hero is brawny but brainless, is easily tricked by Villain, who runs off with Heroine to wicked Manhattan. When Hero discovers he has been bad, the forest suffers, his rage spares nothing. He sets out in pursuit. Meanwhile Villain's fortunes suffer. He encounters a penny-in-the-slot machine, tries...
...general plot is not one of originality, but it is handled by the author in a fresh and stimulating way. The director, unfortunately seemed to be unable to decide whether he was photographing a stage play or making a motion picture. The result is that the possibilities of a movie are not touched, but his material was of such a high caliber that the production still remains a success...