Word: derelictions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Constitution in their own economic interest. Newspapers screamed that Beard was a "hyena." Ex-President Taft (whom Beard calls his heaviest critic-"by tonnage") damned it in a special speech. High schools banned the book; public libraries put it on the restricted shelf. Nicholas Murray Butler sputtered that his derelict professor of politics was aping "the crude, immoral and unhistorical teaching of Karl Marx." Charles Beard urged them to read Federal Paper No. 10, by Founding Father James Madison...
Keep Smiling (Twentieth Century-Fox). Jane Withers, heretofore cinema's No. 1 brat, functioning as the ray of sunshine that brightens the career of a derelict movie director (Henry Wilcoxon), in a film designed to appeal mostly to moppets...
Then once more horror, ludicrous and blowsy, leers at their brittle situation, simpers up to them in the person of one Charley (John Barrymore), derelict at large, a bedraggled barfly and connoisseur of crime, who alone of living men knows who really killed the broker. When Ken has routed Charley he prepares to leave his lying wife. She wins him back with one final lie, which may come true...
...book clear to his reading. From all walks of life a variety of figures illustrates the thesis: Alderman Mrs. Beddows, the shrewd and courageous old lady, triumphant over an unhappy marriage; Lydia Holly, the intelligent and unfortunate daughter of an old rogue whose impecunious family lives in a derelict railway car; Miss Sigglesthwaite, learned science mistress of the high school, who is totally incompetent to rule her incorrigible pupils: Snaith, the wealthy alderman, whose reforms are intellectual rather than humanitarian; Midge Carne, the neurotic, unhappy adolescent granddaughter of Lord Sedgmire. One cannot fail to enjoy the star-crossed romance...
...however, is complicated by the presence of Miss Davis' former husband. A very unusual conclusion defies the custom of happy endings: seeming to be dictated by a sense of justice and duty, more real than Hollywood fantasy. We especially recommend this picture and Miss Davis' interpretation of a drunken derelict in particular...