Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greatest Gamble (RKO) is a picture to perplex the Legion of Decency. Scrupulously clean in the matter of major morals, it advertises such minor vices as breaking jail, roulette and spilling water on the table cloth. Philip Eden (Richard Dix), hero of His Greatest Gamble, is, he says, a "half-mad cavalier who lights his cigaret on the stars and throws the stars away." By way of corroboration. he kidnaps his 10-year-old daughter from his estranged wife (Erin O'Brien-Moore); whisks her along the coast of France on a 30-day inspection of gambling casinos; ties...
...Davis, U. S. Ambassador-at-Large, went bustling from group to group trying to patch the quarrel between M. Barthou and the British. Sir John Simon, British Foreign Secretary with whom M. Barthou came to verbal blows fortnight ago, had gone back to London, leaving at Geneva Captain Anthony Eden, the Empire's young, adroit conciliator and "Traveling Salesman of Peace...
Charles Hillis Kaiser, 5G., of Eden, O., to be assistant in Philosophy 1934-35. A.M. Harvard 1930; Ph.D...
These antique legends point back & back to a Garden of Eden, unrecognized by Science, which offers instead a "Lemurian world ... a scene wherein the tortured larva of the human being . . . endured the nightmare of fear and lust which made up his life, in desperate conflict with scaly mountains of flesh in the shape of flying lizards and giant newts." Says Author Mann: Science leads here into a blind alley; this was not the beginning. "We have sounded the well of time to its depths, and not yet reached our goal: the history of man is older than the material world...
...before the Eden speech was delivered in Geneva, solid Stanley Baldwin rose in the House of Commons...