Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which Warner Brothers generously exhibit the reverse of the medal, ornamented by the likeness of a stage lady of a different type. Joyce Heath (Bette Davis) is a minor-league Duse whose talents are impaired by a fondness for drink, lechery and offstage exhibitionism. She drives her husband to despair, causes a young architect (Franchot Tone) to jilt his fiancee (Margaret Lindsay), and wrecks his high-priced roadster on a tree. This produces a concussion and remorse, in which Joyce Heath abandons her bad ways...
...abused widow of a man who not only betrayed her but also infected her son Oswald, Mme Nazimova, now 56, manages to convey every shade of pride, courage and despair, by her trick of singing rather than speaking her lines, by the manifold gestures of her hands and even of her back. Her supporting cast-McKay Morris, Harry Ellerbe and pretty Ona Munson, fresh from musicomedy-seems to have caught fire itself from the sparks of her genius...
...others interested in the life and works of Louis Henry Sullivan. A professor of art and archeology at Dartmouth, Hugh Morrison, author of Louis Sullivan,* was naturally more interested in Sullivan's work than his life. As it happened, both were equally full of tragedy, triumph and despair. Son of an Irish dancing master, Louis Sullivan, at 16, was a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At 17 he was a draftsman in the office of one of the hundreds of fledging architectural firms which were building not by the house but by the mile, after the Chicago...
FIRST of the United States Steel "new blood Benjamin F. Fairless, 45, has been elected to presidency of the Carnegie Illinois Steel Corporate "New blood," but even more significant, Fairless of born the son of an Ohio of miner, and lived early in Shadows of sooty shafts of human despair...
...loss of $185,000 million. . . . This is stupendous and unparalleled, almost ungraspable in its immensity. . . . There never was economic waste on this gigantic scale." Lewis Corey holds that Fascism is no answer, but middle-class readers, visualizing the grim alternatives before them, are likely to experience despair, implore, like Milton's Satan as he stumbled toward the Pit: "Which way the neerest coast of darkness lyes...