Word: englander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bill (Warner Bros.): Kay Francis, less glamorously gowned than usual, as a harried New England widow braving family and financial problems with the aid of her youngest son (Dickie Moore...
...shortcomings by itinerant northern journalists, Reporter Ashmore decided to spend his two-week vacation in "the deep North to see how they managed to cast the first stone."* New York City, the indignant reporter found, was the "sweatshop capital of America," its slums squalid and crime-breeding. New England's textile cities seemed to him "not far from being industrial ghost cities." In Philadelphia, he found more slums and "the universal fear" that industry would move away. In the shadow of Bethlehem's steel mills he saw "filth and depravity" and the same methods that southern manufacturers...
...University School's youngsters, art "played a vital part." One year they had a medieval Christmas, painted a church doorway for scenery. Other years they celebrated Christmas in the style of Sweden, Russia, Elizabethan England. They illustrate their book with paintings, photographs of their work, themes. Sample literary work (a summary...
...Tobacco Roaders, they have the same weary way of repeating themselves, the same facility in wrecking automobiles, the same batlike blinking bewilderment, when some thing new appears. When Decline and Fall, published in 1929, won extraordinary acclaim for its 25-year-old author, critics said that Waugh looked like England's strongest claim to a first-rate satirist. As it was followed with weaker tales, perfunctory travel books, a pious biography of Elizabethan Edmund Campion, and as Waugh became more interested in politics, his novels became more like those of an ax-grinding P. G. Wodehouse...
From conversations with commercial travelers, lesser diplomats, people he meets on boats, England's indefatigable journalist Philip Gibbs concludes that Neville Chamberlain's realistic policy is the only thing that can save the world...