Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frank Theodore Woods, widow of the Bishop of Winchester, who resides at Hampton Court in an apartment at the disposal of King Edward. In the circumstances His Majesty is unlikely to turn Mrs. Woods out of Hampton Court, and she was reported to have laid before members of the Central Council of the Mothers Union a proposal that Bachelor Edward VIII be waked upon by delegations of British Mothers who will "implore His Majesty to do nothing which could be construed as weakening the moral fibre of the British nation...
...Christian Churches sin against the image of the Lord in preaching the brotherhood of man and in sending pious missionaries to Central Africa until our higher culture will even there have been made a foul brood of bastards...
...administrations. Dollar diplomacy and a threatening "big stick" attitude on the part of the United States have been discarded as unprofitable, fortunately for both continents. The voyage to Buenos Aires, it may be hoped, will signalize the conquest of the last vestige of hate and distrust which South and Central American countries still harbor as the result of the traditional aggressiveness of their "big brother...
...Duncan sisters are funny -- no doubt about that, and a delightful little ninny called Imogene Coca helps considerably. Frances Williams, the featured lady, is presentable, but undistinguished. The review itself has a less central theme, if possible, than most; where the authors found their hodgepodge it is hard...
Unfortunately director Leroy devotes a lot of film to developing this profusion of plot, and the impact of the central idea is lost. Anthony is a tragic figure hounded by misfortune. He is unable to take his bride to Havana because a letter she leaves him is blown away by the wind. Business conditions force him to spend many years in Africa while he loses touch with his wife. When the lovers are finally united she has become so compromised in court intrigue and gossip that she cannot join him in America. The great ambition of the orphan...