Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...contract with Durant Motors, Inc. In selling. Mr. de Vaux has attained a great reputation, reaps fat commissions. He lives in Piedmont (across the Bay from San Francisco ) on an estate previously belonging to R. C. Durant, son of William Crapo. When not working, he is apt to be seen swishing around in fast speedboats, second in his heart only to automobiles...
...Daniel Carson was elected Congressman from his Wisconsin district, he went to Washington full of ambition and high ideals. Poor, unmarried, a farmer, he had lived a progressive but black-&-white life, and as a Congressman expected to do the same on a grander scale. In Washington he was seen with the wrong people, got off to a bad start. His ambition found little outlet on the Committee on the Disposition of Useless Executive Papers. Then he met Senator Miller's wife, beautiful, socially powerful, a teaser. Congressman Carson had left a girl behind in Wisconsin: more worldly-wise...
Long before the film reached Germany, German opinion on its worth was neatly divided into two groups, Socialists (pacifists) who not having seen the film were sure that All Quiet was the finest, most graphic war film ever produced; Nationalists and National Socialists (Fascists) who not having seen the film were equally sure that it was a slander on German courage and an insult to Germany's War dead. The Berlin premiere fortnight ago changed few opinions, but Herr Hitler's faithful Nazis took drastic means of expressing their disapproval. Not content with shouting denunciations at the screen, rioting...
...Things Seen. Staggering were some of the things Diarist Knickerbocker noted on his 10,000-mi. swing around Reds...
They have seen anesthetics making the water-clear nerve cells become first cloudy, then coagulated like the white of a hard-boiled egg. When the anesthetic wears off, the nerve cells resume their original water-clearness. Alcohol affects the nerves similarly. So do narcotics...