Word: drag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South Side. Bales of letters, cards, X-ed scraps of paper are stacked in every cranny, and more still pour in. Last week some 300 of her followers, who mostly are on Relief (as is she), arrived in Washington by truck and car, so fagged that they could hardly drag themselves up the Capitol steps to hear their friend from Mississippi...
Except during the infrequent moments when the play tends to drag, every member of the cast is excellent. Were the play comparatively simple, good acting could be expected from the Dramatic Club, and would not be noteworthy. But in such an intricate play as "He Was Born Gay" convincing acting required a great deal of intelligence and ability. The lead, Mason, was especially complex and a less sensitive actor than William Manson would have mixed weakness, mysticism and ambition into a completely incomprehensible mass. That Manson was able to cope with such a character successfully is a compliment...
Dodge City's première was the most notable thing about it. The picture itself is a good, noisy Technicolor, flag-waving Western, enlivened by Ann Sheridan, Olivia de Havilland, Errol Flynn and a knock-down drag-out saloon fight. So continual is the random gunfire that cinemaddicts might guess that the place took its name from the necessary behavior of the inhabitants...
...though independent characters, they are still part of a greater scene. The Dust Storms have pushed them along with countless thousands like them from their land of which they were so proud just because it was theirs and because it was solid and dependable. Bewildered, they drag themselves in droves to California, the land of milk and honey; their faith necessary to carry on is built on expectation of a Promised Land, where they will live in "little white houses in among the orange trees." On the road some die and some wander off. Then, once in California, they become...
...their last chance to seize the leadership of Europe that has been usurped by Germany, and thus preserve peace. If they fail, then war is inevitable, probably by the beginning of summer. It will be war to the bitterest end. Germany may lose. But also she may very probably drag the world down with...