Word: brood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...medium for the bland, effervescent personality of the American stage actor, George M. Cohan. Besides that, it is an evening's worth of high-tension excitement, with astonishingly little remission. After you have left the theatre, however, your task--the spectator's task--is done. There is nothing to brood over in melancholy moments. "Dear Old Darling" makes no pretensions beyond those of good, solid entertainment...
...associate in Oology, Eggman Harlow will brood over one of the finest collections of old eggs in the world, second only to that of the lamented Riverside Farm. Adding a touch of piquancy to the announcement is the statement that the appointment is for a three-year term...
Pearl, in love with a musician who cannot afford to marry her, draws solace from her piano until that, too, is taken from her. Leo Gordon, father of this unhappy brood, is a dreamy designer of pocketbooks whose partner is revealed in rapid succession as a brutal exploiter of his workers, an incipient firebug, an absconder. Half a dozen other characters in Paradise Lost do not get along well either. Nevertheless, Leo Gordon is able to say in a full-length curtain speech that everything is going to be all right now that they have all hit hard...
...finds the gang's hideout, discovers that its leader is a cold-eyed Easterner who has been paying attention to Jim Arnold's daughter. Fast, well photographed by Archie Stout, Bar-20 Rides Again is the best of its series (others: Hopalong Cassidy, Eagle's Brood), should prove eminently acceptable not only to U. S. youngsters but also to older folk who regard horse operas as topnotch entertainment. Second only to the works of Zane Grey, the Hopalong Cassidy series have sold 1,500,000 copies in the U. S., have been translated into German, Polish, Spanish...
...damn you, TIME, for your smearing article on that great and scholastic Liberal, Mark Sullivan [TIME, Nov. 18]. Did it. ever occur to your smart-alec brood of newsquacks to bother to define what true American liberalism is? Here's a challenge...