Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With them in the cast are all sorts of other monkeys; they swarm across rivers, run up vines, keep a lookout in a tree and in the end are a deciding factor in the triumphant campaign against the tigers. Rango is intelligently thought out and beautifully photographed-a scientific document and a work of art at the same time, far more valuable though less exciting than the graphic Trader Horn. Best shot: a long battle between a tiger and a water buffalo, in which the buffalo stabs the tiger to death with its pointed horns. A shot that makes women...
...episodes that can be objected to. Director Wesley Ruggles has smartly used every resource of his medium to make a picture so convincing in its treatment of a little publicized and exciting phase of U. S. expansion that it is valid historical document as well as a fine story...
...Wickersham report, product of more than nineteen months of expert investigation, is a stand-off pure and simple. Whatever the endeavor, the result is a document that is all things to all men. Read one way, neither wets nor dry can extract much solace from it; read another, both can find comfort in it, the wets because nearly all of the individual opinions favor their side of the cause, and the dry because the report as a whole stands for the existing order of things...
...that it is a queer document is to put the case mildly. Of the eleven members of the commission, ten subscribe to the general recommendations, which are dry in effect and in implication. But six members, in the individual opinions which all had the privilege of setting forth, strike a note not at all in accord with the conclusions of the committee as a whole. Two of them advocate absolute repeal, and the four others would have the Amendment revised to lodge with Congress the power to (1) continue the present system of national prohibition, or (2) to remit...
Throughout England Conservative papers called the Bennett statement a "crushing document," flayed Laborites Thomas and MacDonald for "insulting and estranging" Canada. Fortunately the blood of Britons is not hot. When Bachelor Bennett and his sister-hostess left their London hotel to take the boat-train for Liverpool (en route to Canada) they were accompanied by bluff, expansive, jovial Jim Thomas...