Word: volleying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cinema cycles usually begin when some foresighted or lucky producer scores a bull's-eye with a shot in the dark. They usually last until there is no room left on the target. Last week there was a volley of shots-in-the-dark when three major moviemakers simultaneously fired away at the same place, released big-budget pictures chronicling the doings of the white man in Africa. Two bull's-eyes and one clean miss, last week's African broadside practically amounted to a cinema cycle in itself...
...church door, a red biretta on his close-cropped head, an old black overcoat covering his scarlet-piped soutane, appeared hollow-eyed Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna. As he raised his arms in bewildered alarm, the mob let go a volley of eggs and potatoes. A schoolteacher shouted: "Herr Cardinal, your hands are sticky with the blood of Holzweber and Planetta!"* Someone swung an umbrella at the Cardinal, knocked off his biretta. By that time his chauffeur, his clothes torn during a mauling by the crowd, had managed to bring the Cardinal's automobile up to the church...
Reorganization II Like a man with a new rifle who waits only for ammunition to shoot it, Franklin Roosevelt last week again raised the Government reorganizing power granted him by Congress last March and let fly. His second volley affected only 12,000 U. S. employes, promised to save only $1,250,000, but in the pants of inefficiency it looked like a telling fusillade...
...beer bottle flying by night through the window of a bawdy house, a volley of answering pistol shots flying out of the house, were the projectiles, fired last February, which last fortnight blew the lid off the city government of Champaign, Ill. Indicted for the murder of Sophomore William Spurrier of the University of Illinois was Mrs. Margaret Strothers, Negro proprietress of the bawdy house. Indicted for intentional dereliction of duty in not suppressing vice were Champaign's Mayor James D. Flynn, Chief of Police Roy Argo, State's Attorney Fred B. Hamill, former Sheriff Clarence W. Roth...
...Prague's streets in dumb despair. Later in the day they grew defiant. Whistles and jeers greeted each new squadron. Groups sang the Czech anthem and wept openly. Some shouted "Pfui! Pfui! go back home!" But the only physical resistance Herr Hitler's tanks met was a volley of snowballs. Down in Prague's Jewish district there was terror. Two lovers shot themselves, a couple jumped from their apartment window. By week's end suicides had mounted...