Word: epic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...California Democratic voters had a choice of two protests against President Roosevelt's failure to embrace "Production-for-Use" and the Townsend Plan. When the results were counted, 101,403 had chosen Upton Sinclair's EPIC slate; 58,897 had plumped for Representative John S. McGroarty's Townsendite group. That left the President a tremendous majority...
Fortnight ago these epic headlines blared forth from the front page of the London Sunday Referee, lurid weekly beloved by Britain's masses. Billed as a "Sunday Referee Special," the startling story related how "a peasant woman, forty-two years of age, sits in Triboure, a lonely little village on a spur of the Pyrenees. Her foot rocks a cradle in which lie-SIX FULL-SIZED NORMAL BABIES. SHE GAVE BIRTH TO THEM IN ONE DAY SEVEN MONTHS AGO." The reason this amazing news had been so long reaching the world, explained the Referee, was that "there...
...snappy dialogue and dance routines than classroom dignity, knows this and is prepared to meet the demand. His pictures are intended for the film-going public as a whole, and not solely for a few hypercritical students. For this reason most college films, outside of the annual football epic (for which I offer no apologies) are musicals...
Adapted from an 1890 best seller by Laura Elizabeth Richards, directed by David Butler, Captain January belongs to a special class of cinema. Neither epic, romance nor extravaganza, it is designed solely as its star's vehicle. The screen play by Sam Hellman, Gladys Lehman and Harry Tugend is pleasantly salty and the supporting players comport themselves as expertly as usual. As an item of entertainment, however, the value of Captain January depends entirely upon the fact that Shirley Temple appears in almost every sequence, grinning, sobbing, dancing, singing, wriggling, pattering down stairs or spitting on her pinafore...
...these changes affecting the California carbuncle on the body of the A. M. A. have occurred: the A. M. A. has become more lenient toward California experiments in the relation of doctor to patient; California doctors were scared away from drastic changes in ethics by Upton Sinclair's EPIC. Dr. Coffey hopes that by "playing ball" with the A. M. A., that organization will fulfill his dearest wish and agree that he has cured many a case of cancer with hypodermic injections of extracts of adrenal cortex (TIME, Nov. 11 et ante...