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...from deciding lightly to run for a third term-a move which, successful or not, could hardly fail to cause a furor as perilous as that over the Court Bill. ¶ Much water has flowed under Brooklyn Bridge since that day five years ago when James J. Walker threw...
Having split into a number of sections charged with preparing reports for general discussion, the assembled churchmen trooped off to committee meetings from which accumulated steam soon began to escape. Rugged-faced Reinhold Niebuhr threw his prepared speeches aside to declare: "If the millions who have drifted away from the Church may be classed collectively as the prodigal son, the church may be pictured in the guise of an elder brother who has antagonized...
...daughter of their worst enemy, the Archbishop, they threatened to resign unless the King did something about it. The King beat them to the draw by handing in his own resignation. On the day the King's abdication was to take place, the Prime Minister threw a bomb close enough to his carriage to make it look like an attempted assassination, so that abdication now would look like cowardice rather than a rebuke to his Cabinet. King John admitted he was licked. Soon after he became seriously ill, the loose bone was discovered and fixed, whereupon the King recovered...
Easy Living (Paramount). When Mary Smith (Jean Arthur) is riding downtown on top of a Fifth Avenue bus, a sable coat lands on her head. Enraged because the feather in her hat is broken, she insists that J. B. Ball (Edward Arnold), who threw the coat out of his penthouse to enrage his wife, buy her a new hat. He does so. In her new finery, Mary Smith loses her job, makes friends with an amiable young automat waiter (Ray Milland) and, to her amazement, receives an offer of free lodging in a swank hotel, which she and the waiter...
...Montreal, gunmen robbed Canada Bread Co. of $2,700, sped away in an automobile. When a motorcycle policeman started after them, the panicky gunmen threw a bag containing $2,300 of the money into a lane, outdistanced the motorcycle, vanished. The policeman only wanted to give them a ticket for driving through a "stop" sign...