Word: dreamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other countries Conservatives dream vainly of victories as perfect as that won throughout the United Kingdom last week by the world's foremost Conservatives. Everyone had expected them to win (TIME, Nov. 18) but warming to their Capitalist cockles was the post-election firming up last week of sterling, sound City shares and Treasury bonds. Though dull as a whole, the campaign had provided just enough brickbats and pieces of lead pipe hurled by Britain's unique proletariat safely over Conservative candidates' heads. There were no bloody riots, best of all no facing of grim domestic issues...
...midnight air, While the pale moon breaks out, with fitful gloom; Fond memory turns with sad, but welcome care, To scenes of desolation and despair, Once bright with all that beauty could bestow, That peace could shed, or youthful fancy know To the fair isle reverts the pleasing dream. . . . In 1831 Harman Blennerhassett died. A decade later his widow and his old lawyer, Senator Henry Clay, were trying to get a bill through Congress to indemnify her for the loss of the mansion. Mrs. Blennerhassett died before any action was taken. During the Civil War, both Union and Confederate soldiers...
...Shakespeare to Way Down East, this tender story was doubtless recommended by the fact that the love which it delineates, while unlicensed, is endowed with supernatural purity. It is the merit of Peter Ibbetson that its evanescent romance does not evaporate entirely in the dissolve treatment which all such dream-epics demand from the camera. This is due partly to the firmly sympathetic touch of Director Henry Hathaway, previously noted for such outdoor works as Lives of a Bengal Lancer, and partly to the presence of Gary Cooper and Ann Harding whose eminently unmystical impersonations correct the narrative...
This week and probably many more to come will see Max Reinhardt's "Midsummer Night's Dream" at the Majestic Theatre. On the playbills some credit is given to one William Shakespeare for some work on the script, thus confirming the long-whispered rumor that the Bard of Avon was the first Warner Brother...
Jimmy Cagney and Joe E. Brown as the clowns are good--at least in comparison with the lovers. Cagney awaking from his dream is one of the high spots of the play, but their sequences do not run smoothly, and they too suffer from their novel surroundings...