Word: dares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Zola becomes conscious of the Dreyfus case when the Captain's wife (Gale Sondergaard) begs his aid. All his old fighting instincts aroused, Zola writes his famous editorial J'accuse ("I accuse"), charging the army with conspiracy and daring anyone to try him for treason. The army takes the dare. Zola's trial lasts 30 minutes on the screen, with speeches longer than cinemaddicts are supposed by most Hollywood producers to be willing to hear. Zola's rhetoric is no match for the mass of lying evidence and the judge's prejudice. Convicted, he flees...
...they had not forgotten all the worthy advice Dr. Copeland as columnist and health commissioner had given them on the care of babies. He was elected, re-elected in 1928, re-elected in 1934, for though Jim Farley and Franklin Roosevelt did not love Dr. Copeland, they did not dare challenge the potency of the bedside manner in politics...
...born and reared a soil-grubbing peasant, while Dr. Ley worked originally as a chemist. Cianetti is ebullient, fiery, humorous-Ley full of German mysticism and plodding pugnacity. In a recent two-hour address to proletarians at Hamburg, Labor's Ley key- noted : "Those German employers who dare to rate machines higher than men are going to be given plenty of opportunity to arrive at a contrary opinion in concentration camps!" In Italy's present production spurt toward rearmament, Labor's Cianetti dashes incessantly about the kingdom, addressing workers' meetings, hearing grievances and badgering big Italian...
...Bull Moore was above any kind of mix-up that concerned a girl, his dare-deviltry sometimes brought him to the edge of other kinds of trouble. In 1927, a grocer accused of selling liquor complained that a young bully posing as a policeman had walked in and taken $50, promising to have the accusation quashed. Bull Moore was tried for this offense. He got a six-month sentence which the judge suspended...
...Grecian neckline. Typical shot: Errol Flynn athletically clearing some dunes of a large number of hostile Bedouins. You Can't Beat Love (RKO). Only effective method of waking up Lawyer Jimmy Hughes (Preston Foster) in the morning is for his browbeaten butler Jasper (Herbert Mundin) loudly to dare him to get out of bed. Once up, he joins a gang of ditchdiggers on a dare, swings pick & shovel in white tie and tails with Jasper in anguished attendance (see cut). He is dared to run for mayor by the incumbent's daughter Trudy (Joan Fontaine). Thereupon ensues...