Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spring of 1853, just as the Big Ditch is freed of ice, Dan Harrow (Henry Fonda), a big, quiet farm boy, signs on as a mule driver for the summer. In Hennessy's strictly moral canal hotel at Rome (immoral canal hotels could be identified by their white chimneys), Dan meets Molly Larkins (June Walker). She is a pretty minx born to the Erie water. The conflict between "notional" Molly and simple Dan is the traditional one between water folk and land folk...
...sudden turn of good luck for Dan sends Molly into the kitchen of Dan's Sarsey Sal. A tranquil panorama by Currier & Ives, The Farmer Takes a Wife becomes emotionally articulate only when Molly is trying to infect her bumpkin beau with her passion for The Big Ditch...
...lebrès was passing his 75th birthday. For the running of the Langollen National Steeplechase on his Upperville, Va. estate, young Sportsman John Hay ("Jock") Whitney flew down from Manhattan in his new plane. Few feet above the landing field the motor stalled. The plane struck a ditch, nosed over, bumped owner and pilot into unconsciousness. With a black eye and six strips of plaster on his face, Sportsman Whitney went out next day to announce the races. In Washington Princess Julia Dent Grant Cantacuzene, granddaughter of President Ulysses Simpson Grant, regained the U. S. citizenship to which...
...frequent eye to such devices as a shot of Mary knitting to show goodness, a shot of the wench playing a blues tune to show badness. Best sequence is the final one, done in the Russian manner. In it the community works furiously against time to dig an irrigation ditch from the river to their fields. Of this Director Vidor says: "I tried to develop it like a ballet. I aimed to get the effect of mounting drama through the movements of the diggers' bodies. With the use of a metronome whose tempo was kept constantly on the increase...
Driving to Boston to speak over the radio, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins fretted in a Labor Day traffic jam outside Brunswick, Me. To escape from a tangle with two other cars, her chauffeur swerved into a ditch, lost control, over turned her sedan. Madam Secretary Per kins, badly jolted, canceled her afternoon engagement, delivered her speech that evening...