Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Astonishing Reading." When Rufus Daniel Isaacs first saw India as a cabin boy it was because of an unsuccessful youthful love affair. When he next saw India as Viceroy it was because of a successful love affair. The second woman, Alice Edith Cohen, who became his first wife, persuaded him to leave a failing career as a stockbroker and study law. Colleagues rate him below his contemporaries Lord Birkenhead and Sir John Simon as a lawyer. They credit his industry (he got up at 4 a. m.), his wit and polish, his amazing memory for figures for the fact that...
Suspicion points to Burch and his 'legger boss, Joe Christmas, who have been living in a cabin on her place. Here Faulkner drops the gravid mother, goes back & back to Joe Christmas' beginnings. Because he was a bastard with Negro blood in him. little Joe had a hard time from the start. His mad grandfather made it worse by hounding him religiously, lost the trail when Joe grew old enough to commit murder. Down a long Beale Street wandered Joe alone, passing as a white when he wanted to. but hating white and black alike. When they...
...Cabin in the Cotton (First National) is a serious drama of the South's cotton belt, full of violence undramatically organized. As the poor tenant farmers' emancipator, Richard Barthelmess lifts his shining face toward a new day when landlords and tenants will "co-operate." Out of Henry Harrison Kroll's novel, able Southern Playwright Paul Green (In Abraham's Bosom, The House of Connelly) has sneaked into the cinema a good playwright's impartiality. The philosophy of the picture is that the rich are bad and the poor are bad, but the rich are bad because nobody has told them...
Even with Paul Green's sincere writing, Barthelmess' well-intentioned acting, Director Michael Curtiz' occasionally striking photography, Cabin in the Cotton fails to excite with its cinematically new problem, treatment and landscape. The sweet, empty face of honey-haired Bette Davis is notably effective in a villainess part. Excellent shot: the lynching party following bloodhounds along the top of a ridge screened by bare trees...
Died. Sarah Jane Garner, 81, mother of John Nance Garner; of general toxic poisoning: at Detroit, Tex. Daughter of a frontiersman, born on the banks of Texas' Red River, she bore Son John Nance and six other children in a mud-chinked log cabin. She also raised five orphans of her kinfolk. Nominee Garner turned away from the deathbed before his mother died, saying he preferred to remember her as he had known...