Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Wendell Willkie slipped quietly into Los Angeles last week, he was merely chairman of the board of 20th Century-Fox. When he left five days later he looked like the most important Presidential possibility in the Republican Party to Southern California party members. If he has not completed the capture of California by the time he leaves San Francisco for New York on Saturday, this is my last flyer in political prognostication...
Sweet Rosie O'Grady (20th Century-Fox) sumptuously swaggers into Manhattan's Technicolored past (circa 1880) in which Miss Grable plays a music-hall queen from London named Madeleine Marlowe. Madeleine's betrothal to a Duke (Reginald Gardner) is mucked up by cover articles in the Police Gazette which unmask her as the onetime toast of Brooklyn Burlesque, Rosie O'Grady. Rosie wreaks vengeance upon Police Gazette Journalist Sam McGee (Robert Young) by telling the rest of the press that he has wooed her for her fortune. She gets him fired. Journalist McGee gallantly retaliates...
Massive Disdain. His own orthodoxy he revealed in an equal disdain for 20th-century socialism and 20th-century imperialism. In a world of massive empires and massive trusts, Chesterton wanted a revival of opportunity for the small shopkeeper and farmer. He called Britain's colonies deplorable, distracting "suburbs." One of his objections to the Boer War was Britain's destruction of a small nation of small farmers. Where Shaw wanted state socialism (which Chesterton and his friends denounced as "the Servile State"*), Chesterton wanted Distributism (the division of land into small holdings, and of chain stores into thousands...
When the late Gustavus Myers first conceived this book (in 1925), he may not have thought that his theme would become more topical than the perpetuity of human malevolence. But since World War II began, surges of intolerance have grown so commonplace that the 20th Century, long accustomed to regarding itself as the most civilized age in human history, has been able blandly to disregard the fact that it has become the most savage. Race wars, class wars, the mistreatment of Negroes in the U.S., the deliberate efforts to exterminate the Jews in Europe, the coldblooded, scientific murder or enslavement...
...Claudia (20th Century-Fox) furnishes dozens of adroit excuses for laughing about a U.S. character as typical and beloved as the Mickeys (Rooney and Mouse)-the Child Wife, Suburban Style...