Word: epic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surrounded by Cossacks he said he was an enlisted man, showed his hands, calloused and blistered from overhauling motors. After a year in foul Russian prisons, he miraculously escaped and returned to the unit. Pilot Cooper later wrote for the New York Times, then set out to film Grass, epic migration of a remote Persian tribe. This he followed with the immensely profitable Chang, filmed in. Siam. A descendant of Count Casimir, Pulaski's second-in-command at the Battle of Savannah, affable Pilot Cooper is now an associate producer of Radio-Keith-Orpheum in charge of adventure pictures...
Colonial--"The Green Pastures." Marc Connelly's touching epic of the southern negroes in Paradise and Elsewhere as inspired by the bible. Beautiful singing. Reviewed in this issue...
...them. The golf museum was made possible through the munificence of an indefatigable museum founder, tall Archer Milton Huntington, son of Railroad Builder Collis Potter Huntington. Archer Huntington insists that his real hobby is Hispanic studies, not founding museums. He has written several travel books on Spain, translated the epic of the Cid Campeador, introduced Artists Zuloaga and Sorolla to the U. S. Less successfully last winter he sponsored one Cesáreo Bernaldo de Quirós. Argentine illustrator (TIME, March...
...known as "the Master" to U. S.-exiled Cuban revolutionaries, young Rubens caught fire from Marti's fervor, swore he would get in there and fight for Cuban independence. This book is the disarmingly partisan record of how Cuba finally got quit of Spain. His own place in the epic Author Rubens keeps modestly choral: heroes of his tale are Poet Marti, Mulatto General Antonio Macéo, white-bearded, spectacled Máximo Gomez, Cuba herself...
...inquire about him. Says Riviere: "Unfortunately, neither you nor I can do anything except wait." Meanwhile, Fabien's plane is being wrecked in a cyclone over the coast. Riviere knows it but he does not give the order to suspend night flying which his subordinates expect. An epic figure of courage that is the more intense for being vicarious, he instructs the pilot who is waiting to take off with the Europe mail to wait no longer. With Saint Saturnin (see below), Night Flight is a Book-of-the-Month Club offering...