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...tens of thousands of people, especially young ones, a social catastrophe that the conventional institutions of a free society are, in the short run, powerless to correct. But for different people and at different times, much the same thing happened: in the cities of the 1830s, the 1880s, the 1910s. Those who survived were the strong, the mobile and the lucky...
Paradise Lost's second major flaw is Rothschild's writing style. While the book is often intelligible, barrages of jumbled sentences and creative grammar make the reader question her very analytical ability. ("From the mid 1910s, sustained by national machine fever, the auto investment boom swerved higher and higher.") Unfortunately, she is not alone in this regard. Nader's reports are notoriously unreadable, and many of today's most valuable contributions to the field of corporate responsibility are disguised in language which can only be intended to impress the reader by confusing him. It is more than annoying that some...
...Ever since the 1910s, when peddlers on horse-drawn carts began to ladle out vanilla at 15? a pailful, the traveling ice cream man has been an American folk hero. To the young, he has become better known than the fire chief, more welcome than the mailman, more respected than the corner cop. Once, when a Larchmont, N.Y., Good Humor man switched routes, 500 neighborhood tots signed a petition for his return...
...1910s, when shapely, grey-eyed Geraldine Farrar was the most shimmering star of Manhattan's Metropolitan, operatic prima donnas were the world's most galumptious glamor girls. In 1922, before her cult had time to die, 40-year-old Soprano Farrar retired from the operatic stage to live a secluded life on a Connecticut farm. Last week she published her autobiography,* a curiously constructed narrative half of which is written in the third person as though seen through the eyes of Soprano Farrar's deceased mother...
Bolero (Paramount). Set in the 1910s, this picture features Maurice Ravel's famed composition (written in 1928), calls a cabaret a night club, omits the maxixes and bunny-hugs of the period in favor of jazz steps and a fan dance by Sally Rand. A Belgian-born coal miner named Raoul (George Raft) becomes a dancer. As he rises in the world, he casts off partner after partner because they try to mix pleasure and business. He acquires an able partner in Helen (Carole Lombard), but loses her when he talks of going to war as a good publicity...