Word: bewilderments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The pale young people who drink sherry at little tables and decide the latest vogues in art were all finished with surrealism years ago. Surrealism may be described as painting the facts of dreams. Example: A little man with a head on which cabbages grow, carrying a huge spoon across...
Thsi new lineup was very effective in stopping the attack of the Jumbos who started strongly in the first two innings. Proctor Avon twirled his pitches to bewilder the lumbering elephants, Bilowy Tom was crashing his hits far into the outfield, and in general the team had rallied from the...
Like the panem at circenses which the government has provided for the public in ringmaster Pecora and his fawning troupe of agile performers, J. P. Morgan and Kuhn, Leeb, the World Economic Conference has accomplished nothing and, though far more significant, is much less entertaining. The present impasse points to...
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Fox). Somewhat baffled by the problem of making the kind of pictures which cinemaddicts prefer, most producers do not attempt to specialize. Alert cinemaddicts realize, however, that there are a few exceptions to this rule. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer runs to lavish casts. Universal last year was...
Died. Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, 52, famed poet (A Handy Guide for Beggars, The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems, Rhymes to be Traded for Bread, Every Soul is a Circus); of heart disease; in Springfield, Ill. Born into a pioneer Springfield family (he was later to become preoccupied with local history...