Word: debutanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chinless, 34-year-old President David Lasser of the Workers Alliance of America. By now a thoroughgoing professional at marching his squads of unemployed into a State capitol and virtually taking over the legislative proceedings in the name of higher relief standards, Lasser and his Workers made their headline debut at Madison, Wis. last March. There soft-hearted Governor Philip La Follette welcomed them into the State House, provided them with food, advised them to "turn the heat" on the Legislature. After they had camped in the Senate chamber for ten days, Governor La Follette realized his mistake, had them...
...women whose careers converge or parallel each other. Some, like the promising but spineless Harvard intellectual, Dick Savage, have figured prominently in the previous volumes. Red-faced, hard-drinking Charley Anderson barely appeared in The 42nd Parallel; Margo Dowling, dissolute and disillusioned cinema queen, makes her debut in The Big Money. Dos Passos' method is to follow one of his characters through some meaningful experience or period in his life, then shift to another. Between chapters he inserts the short biography of some real public figure whose career forms an oblique commentary on the imaginary character just described...
...moment when it looked as if Colonel Ruppert might have bought a $75,000 goldbrick. That came in the training season last spring when Di Maggio first bruised an ankle and then, while treating the injury, managed to get his foot burned by a sun lamp. He made his debut at the Yankee Stadium three weeks late, got a triple and two singles in six turns...
...Stand Condemned is principally notable for its personnel. Its director was Anthony Asquith, bright young offspring of onetime Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith. Its heroine is Socialite Penelope Dudley-Ward. Its hero, the profiteer Brioukov, is Harry Baur, most famed cinemactor in France, making his English-speaking screen debut...
...portrayal of Dr. Moriarty in Sherlock (1907), he was a member in good standing of the Paris pre-War esthete set, friend of Picasso, Apollinaire, Max Jacob. Forgotten by his public when the War was over, he worked his way up in bit parts, made his cinema debut in Gap Perdu (1930). U. S. audiences have seen him as the father in Poll de Carotte, in the French version of Les Miserables...