Word: dreamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mamba's Daughters tells of big, awkward, blundering, childlike Hagar (Ethel Waters) and her passionate, inarticulate love for her daughter, Lissa. Her dream is to make a lady of Lissa. But a misstep on the girl's part threatens her reputation. To keep it intact the frantic mother commits both murder and suicide...
...past, and in spite of recurring "entanglement" with the continent of Europe, American public opinion as a whole has persisted in dreaming the roseate dream of isolation. Justly revolted by the power politics and recurring warfare of the old world, and profoundly desirous of a separate, peaceful life on this continent, they have thought and acted in terms of a fundamental division of the world. But while thus pleasantly immersed in eighteenth and early nineteenth century thinking, their nation grew into a major world power; and, except for a brief flurry of world-consciousness in 1920--denied expression by destructively...
...dream nor a fable, nor a trick turn of fate...
Last year a Dutchman named John de Boers began making mistakes, biggest of which was to dream of a fortune he would scoop in three years from St. Paul's waters. He bought a Newfoundland trawler, L'lle Bourbon, spent a small fortune transforming it into a floating refrigerator. Then he assembled as ill-assorted a crew as ever walked up a gangplank: his expansive, motherly wife, who had once lived with natives in Madagascar; a blonde artist (niece of Paul Chabas, painter of September Morn); a Breton radio operator and his bitter-tongued fishwife; a Turkish engineer...
...said Harry Hopkins one day last week after a Cabinet meeting which, though no member, he had attended as usual by Presidential request. When Reorganization failed last spring with it died Harry Hopkins' dream of becoming the first Secretary of Welfare. Now, for weeks, Washington wiseacres had been saying Secretary Roper of Commerce would be let out to make room for Friend Hopkins, with twofold purpose: to take him out of the Congressional barrage soon to fall upon his WPA; to throw him into contact with businessmen and build him up as 1940 Presidential timber...