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...automatic gyro-pilot): "To show how it could fly the plane with his hands off the controls, he was demonstrating this to a girl friend he had with him, by a little conservative lovemaking. At that moment the stabilizer went wrong and the [flying] boat went into a vicious spin, and the two were found pretty much in each other's arms, very severely injured...
...make up the wealthiest group of students at Harvard. Neither of these proposals should be considered seriously. It is as important to recognize the position of a minority on this point as it would be on the most burning social question. Nor should the wealth of the Club men spin the plot. If they oat seven or fourteen meals per week in the House dining-rooms they should pay a rate representing as nearly as possible what such a number of meals is worth...
...from the old Diaghilev company. Most popular male dancers were handsome young David Lichine and the master Massine, who, at 38, is old to be dancing so fleetly. Most popular ballerinas were dark-skinned Tamara Toumanova, who owns the marmoset, and Irina Baronova who can act as well as spin. Both...
...toward verifying the suspicion that Director Busby Berkeley's bizarre cinematic dance routines have lost all but academic interest. His masterpiece this time is a tableau in which a double row of white pianos, at which chorus girls sit waving their hands as though playing waltzes, waver, spin, undulate and finally assemble into a platform on which Gloria Stuart does a tap dance. Cinemaddicts who feel that this represents a perceptible improvement on Berkeley's shadow waltz in Gold Diggers of 1933 are likely also to enjoy the presentation of the best song in the picture, "Lullaby...
...villain need be! Passions spin the plot...