Word: elementalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Papa, Doumergue's government is a stop-gap which can satisfy no one for very long: this poker-playing parliamentarian is plainly not cut out for the Strong Man which events both foreign and domestic foreshadow. The dizzy succession of cabinets has played into the hands of the fascist element, and the Royalists have contributed their little bit to the general unrest and dissatisfaction, though they are in a hopeless minority as far as independent action is concerned. It would not be surprising if the fascists won them over, as in Germany, by promises later easily annulled. The plight...
...goes to the Dental School team with five defeats and not a single victory. The Law III team, without their captain, Bob Leach, succeeded in winning the championship handily and also defeating the Junior Varsity. They were never headed during the entire season, and won their game with the element rival, Law II, easily, with Glick leading the scoring as he did in many of the previous games...
Robert Montgomery, as the escaped convict, Porter, boards a Los Angeles bound bus, a Greyhound bus, (note the advertising element that creeps into Hollywoodiana) and he immediately falls for the babe at his side. Letty is the girl's name, and she lets him know that she is avoiding Legs, a New York gangster. Legs glares at the couple, and Withington (Ted Healy) is trying to persuade a prim woman to take a drink, and Healey's stooges, the Julians, are raising hell in the back of the bus, and character actors fill the remaining seats. The bus is stopped...
Official Washington is not in any sense critical of what the syndicate of commercial banks has done. In fact, if the truth were known a considerable element of high officials here is glad that the ice has been broken. For it is believed the securities act cannot be materially revised at this session of Congress anyhow, so any maneuver that is lawful and gets capital into circulation is welcomed as a step that may accelerate the processes of recovery...
Take, for example, the treatment of death in this movie. Death opens and closes the covers of the story; it is in fact, the all pervading, the only certain, element. Yet it strikes always swiftly, always surely, always, as such things go, with an impressive lack of fuss. The troop is winding along the desert; the lieutenant in command is shot down from ambush, and with him to the grave, go the men's orders and geographical location. Under Victor McLaglen, top sergeant, the remaining eleven find their way to an oasis. Next morning, the youthful sentry is found knifed...