Word: beastes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beast of the City (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Partly because of protests from the Hays organization, 1932 gangster pictures will show criminals as craven rather than heroic. Cinema police, like Walter Huston in this picture, will be clever and courageous instead of timid nincompoops. But it is unlikely that even these thoughtful improvements will instill respect for law & order into cinemaddicts so long as the underworld, however deplorable, is displayed as brilliantly efficient. In this picture, almost all the admirable members of the police department of an anonymous city are destroyed in their effort to capture one small nest of desperadoes...
...heraldic beast which distinguishes Eliot among the Houses is the elephant. The adjective "white" has no necessary application to this animal, although malicious suggestions have occasionally been heard. As a matter of fact, an elephant is the appropriate symbol, since Eliot is by far the largest of the Houses, accommodating nearly three hundred members, and its corporate motions are deliberate and elephantine...
After a decent period of mourning, His Majesty George V had a new dog last week. Like its predecessor, it is a lively, ginger-colored Cairn terrier. Snip, the previous Cairn, was an affectionate beast who whimpered outside the royal bedroom all the time King George lay gravely ill three years ago, and accompanied His Majesty to almost everything except the state openings of Parliament. Snip died in April. Mourned by the royal household and the nation, he was buried in Sandringham by the side of Edward VII's dog Caesar who had the distinction of preceding the Kaiser...
Powder to launch his projectile Spengler derives from the dogma "Man is a beast of prey." But he is essentially not only a carnivore, he is also an inventive carnivore. With every fresh invention Man advances further outside the bounds of Nature. To maintain his unnatural position he soon finds it necessary to band together into societies; within these societies men divide into the leaders and the led. Invention, technics become more and more complex: "The pace of discovery grows fantastic, and withal . . . human labor is not saved thereby." Knowledge to design and manage the machines becomes the leaders...
Loew's State-"The Beast of the City," Jean Harlow and Walter Huston both...