Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...honesty and public devotion." And it certainly is not an honest act to rob the banks of their gold, to issue an edict depriving a man of his gold (even if the gold standard IS ONLY psychological), to deny the obligation of contract, to tax the poor for their bread and meat, to assert in an inauguration speech that the Federal, State, and local tax burdens must be reduced, and then to advocate legislation which has had the exact opposite effect...
...Daily Bread" the cinema becomes socially conscious and treats with a theme that is truly proletarian. In an attempt to give a "powerful" treatment to a story of the common man harassed by truly gigantic economic forces, King Vidor has an obvious sincerity. Because of this notable sincerity and the courage of the theme itself, one is loathe to level the criticism of triteness against "Our Daily Bread." But sympathetic as one may be to such a sudden nobility in movie subjects, and we do believe this to be genuinely sincere, it is hard to see any symptoms of masterpiece...
Sadly, the attempts at mighty characterization fall short of fulfillment, the whole theme is much tool superficially treated and vast as the film is in its sentimental aim, "Our Dally Bread" turns out to be no epoch-making work...
Paramount and Fenway: "Our Dally Bread"--King Vidor's hold interpretation of the current of things social and economic. Reviewed in this issue...
...Today we have 244 prisoners. Here" said the sheriff, pointing into the refrigerator, "are three cases of eggs for them to eat tomorrow at breakfast. There in the pantry is our bread supply." And it certainly was not mother Hubbard's cupboard...