Word: 1930s
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...usually treated in Hollywood: either they're laughed off or they're bumped off. PBS'S AMERICAN MASTERS series makes a case for respect this week with Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey, a lovely tribute to a Hollywood survivor. Salt had penned several successful films in the 1930s and '40s (The Shopworn Angel) when he was forced into exile by the blacklist. The script assignments eventually returned, but his talent didn't: his name first reappeared on dogs like Taras Bulba. But Salt made a comeback with his powerful screenplay for Midnight Cowboy, followed by Serpico and Coming Home...
...Ferragamo, necessity was the spur to invention. In the 1930s and '40s, metal and leather, the staples of shoemaking, were scarce in wartime Italy, so he experimented with what came to hand -- straw, raffia, bark, even fishskin. Another local material, cork, launched one of his greatest inventions, the wedge. The precursor of the familiar wedged heel was a shoe with four corks from local wine bottles sewn together to make a heel. Later in the 1940s, he made uppers of cellophane, after noticing how strong and durable the material was when he twisted a bunch of candy wrappers...
WITH BRITAIN mired in its biggest recession since the 1930s, the big election debate in 1992 centered on taxes and health care...
...novel is set in two distinct time periods, the mid-1930s and the late 1970s, and deals with the events of the Spanish Civil War, Leavitt said...
...Oxford, Trott made several influential friends, including intellectual historian Isaiah Berlin, David Astor, son of Lady Astor, and several Labour Members of Parliament. Unfortunately, in these and other friendships which Trott made later in the 1930s, he showed a lack of foresight which limited his influence in England during Churchill's administration...