Word: 20th
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Those who write history with words sometimes forget that history is made with words. The course of the 20th Century has been shaped by three stupendous movements. Each movement has been led by a man of words, who used words as instruments of policy, of persuasion and of power, who epitomized the character of his movement in words of historic simplicity...
...Alley (20th Century-Fox) is Cinema Historian Darryl Zanuck's latest peek into the annals of U. S. song. His previous rummages have covered popular music from early Stephen Foster days to latest Irving Berlin. Tin Pan Alley, going to no extremes in either history or histrionics, merely parenthesizes a few years before and during World War I, punctuates them with such pleasant oldtime numbers as Moonlight Bay, K-K-K-Katy. A few anachronisms like Honeysuckle Rose and The Sheik of Araby are also thrown in, on the Hollywood theory that anything older than...
...rule on the 20th Century-Fox lot ended fortnight ago when Fox announced the acquisition of a new, independent producer-the first person to have a hand in that studio's "A" picture output since Darryl Zanuck took over in 1935. He was highflying, tight-lipped Howard Hughes, whose Texas fortune has been behind two notable cinema events, Hell's Angels (1930) and Scarface...
...left non-technical gallerygoers wondering what most of it meant. But for those who could tell a cantilever from a truss, it recorded as exciting a body of architectural thinking as has come from the brain of anyone since Michelangelo. Regarded by many as the greatest architect of the 20th Century, Frank Lloyd Wright is conceded even by skeptics to have one of the most restless and imaginative minds the art of architecture has ever known. Architect Wright began designing functional buildings in 1893, fathered the whole international modern architecture movement. In his 48 years of architecture, Wright has designed...
Harvard's cleancut win this afternoon narrowed down preponderance of Yale victories in the series. It was the 59th gridiron meeting between the two schools and the 20th triumph for Harvard...