Word: epic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...available celebrities in the same production has the advantage of giving unpretentious stories a tantalizing air of grandeur. Night Flight is an adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's prize novel about the first night nights on a South American airmail route. Far from being an aviation "epic," it is really a study of an airmail port in operation at a crisis. The hero of the picture is not Jules Fabian (Clark Gable), whose plane is blown to sea by a cyclone, forced down by lack of fuel, but Riviere (John Barrymore), the general manager of the air lines...
...Golden Harvest," this week's feature at the Metropolitan, is a mild bit of adventure apparently inspired by the time-honored farm problem. The producers give taint intimations of attempting an epic but, being unable to solve the problem of surplus wheat any better than a Farm Beard, they content themselves with merigages and government aid for the farmers...
...again in its violent manner. Maggots in the cabbage soup brought about the Cabbage Rebellion, and minor bickering continued until the outbreak of 1819, the "great Rebellion" which combined a hunger strike, and walk-out of 30 students, weird wardances, bonfires, a battle-royal of tableware, and a noted epic "The Rebelliad...
Princeton University Astronomer Harlow Shapley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sc.D. Historian James Truslow Adams (The Epic of America) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Litt.D. Author Andre Maurois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Litt.D. Herbert Putnam, director of the Library of Congress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Litt.D. Samuel Seabury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. Henry Lewis Stimson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .LL.D...
Lehigh University (Bethlehem, Pa.) Historian James Truslow Adams (Epic of America) . . .L.H.D...