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Word: epic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japanese courage and efficiency plus Chinese treachery and bungling made possible last week an epic and amazing relay race of conquest up the snow-swept mountains of Jehol and on to the Great Wall itself, upon which jubilant Japanese hoisted the flag of their puppet state Manchukuo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA-JAPAN: Glorious 16th | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

From Butte to Albuquerque and from Kansas City to Salt Lake-the territory claimed for the Post's 150,000 circulation-the Bonfils career is epic. Everyone knows that he boasted Corsican descent (his father, a Troy, Mo. judge, changed the name from Buonfiglio) and kinship to Napoleon. Handsome, swarthy, he quit West Point in 1881 and tried his hand at land-trading in the Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas booms. His rough-&-tumble methods brought him, if not friends, a neat pot of money with which he started a lottery in Kansas. Bonfils had taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Death in Denver | 2/13/1933 | See Source »

...Eugene O'Neill had thought of it first, the theme of "The Sacred Flame," now at the Peabody Playhouse, would have been tortured into a drama of epic grandcur. It has all the essentials of an O'Neill magnum opus; there's murder, and adultery, and starved sexuality, and problems of passion galore. It might very well have been worked up by America's foremost tragedian into a magnificent scream-fest, with an hour out for supper and a year's run on Broadway...

Author: By T. B. Oc., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/8/1933 | See Source »

...epic in the sense that the garish extravagances of DeMille were called epics. Its effects are not won by means of pyromaniac mobs that made D. W. Griffith a god in Hollywood. Rather "Cavalcade" is a drama of family patriotism; and because the finer qualities of an Englishman are the finer qualities of an American it commands the emotions and sympathy of the American audience...

Author: By R. R., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

...history of one English family, becomes, by implication, a history, almost a definition, of England. Against its spacious background, the subsidiary stories in Cavalcade have a sharp and eloquent perspective which Director Frank Lloyd emphasized by using, not the fulsome rhetoric with which the cinema usually attempts the epic manner, but a sort of cinematic shorthand. The significance to England of Queen Victoria's death becomes apparent from an incident in the Marryots' kitchen; a shot of a life-preserver-lettered S. S. Titanic-ends, with an abrupt full-stop, the story of Edward Marryot and his bride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 16, 1933 | 1/16/1933 | See Source »

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