Word: epical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leon Trotsky lives exiled near Oslo, Norway. Lenin and Trotsky were the chief builders of the Soviet State, control of which after Lenin's death was seized from Trotsky by Stalin. Their epic quarrel: Trotsky insisted Russia must foment Communist revolutions abroad in order to survive as a Soviet country; Stalin favored husbanding Russian energies at home until the U. S. S. R. had enough surplus strength to promote "The World Revolution of the World Proletariat...
...length is that the Legion of Decency would not have permitted a straightforward adaptation of Herbert Gorman's mildly lubricious novel. Consequently the full quota of Harlow appeal which the picture contains had to be injected gradually rather than in short strong doses. Aside from the stuffy epic manner which ill befits its subject, it is a fair sample of its school-frivolous, kinetic and absurd, but not without real moments...
...special House investigating committee revealed that commissions amounting to $2,000 per month were being paid to organizers of the (1 Townsend Plan, 2 National Union for Social Justice, 3 EPIC, 4 American Legion, 5 American Federation of Labor...
...Haven ceremonies had an even wider significance. Having supervised a period of expansion the like of which he could not have dreamed of when he took office a decade and a half ago, James Rowland Angell, father of the New Yale, was beginning the penultimate year of his epic administration...
GIVE Us THIS DAY-Louis Zara-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). The rise and decline of a baker, told in vague, groping, pseudo-epic style. Tedious reading, relieved occasionally by an unintentionally comic passage...