Word: elements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...school. Its only flaw is that, with Hollywood's destructive knack for stylizing all its gestures, the technique of haywire comedy has reached a monotonous perfection. After two screwy characters have been established as potential sweethearts and their lives thoroughly scrambled with another couple's, the main element of suspense is what kind of melee the plot can wind up to. In Double Wedding the melee is Charlie's wedding to Irene, staged in his trailer home, which turns into a wedding to Margit...
LaFollette, a close friend and admirer of Roosevelt, and John Lewis are both men whose hold upon even the progressive element alone in the United States is too shaky to make them serious contenders. There remains but one man of growing national importance:--Fiorello La Guardia. A progressive, pro-labor, a disciple of Franklon Roosevelt and a man of unchallenged integrity, LaGuardia stands to win everything if he is returned to office as Mayor of New York. 1940 will most likely see Henry Wallace facing Vandenburg and if eight years of Roosevelt magic proves too much...
Duke was asked to define swing, if he could. He didn't ponder very long over his reply. "Swing is an emotional element that happens after the music has stopped," he observed, "and it happens in both the audience and in the players." The Duke stopped speaking for a moment and shook his head sadly, "They's a lot of people who don't know anything about...
...power to conduct a criminal rather than a civil action. "Since they have chosen to institute a criminal case," stormed Wild Bill, "they must be bound by the rules that our Constitution has prescribed in order to protect the defendants when they are accused of crime. Now, an essential element in this case is the question of intent: did these men have a guilty intent in what they did? And it isn't sufficient alone ... to show that there was written approval, or statutory approval. There is the question of instigation; there is the question of inducement; there...
...just at this point the fairy tale, fiction element enters the picture in the person of John McLaughry, son of the coach...