Word: epical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Upton Sinclair's EPIC]. WE ARE NOW CALLING ON YOU TO CONTRIBUTE A DAY'S PAY TO OUR COMMITTEE FOR THE SAME PURPOSE." Their candidate for Governor: Upton Sinclair's 1934 lieutenant, Culbert L. Olson...
...long step toward abolishing the controversial basing-point system." It lowered Birmingham and Chicago prices to a par with Pittsburgh (TIME, July 4). The price cuts caught the public eye, but in the steel world the removal of the old differentials caused a consternation which last week reached epic proportions. Other companies struggled to get into line. Small independents stormed that they could...
...making gifts of broadcasting rights to F.T.R.D., authors have been equally generous. James Truslow Adams gave them his The Epic of America for an MBS series, Mary Roberts Rinehart her Tish stories for CBS broadcasting. Most lavish gift of all came from Medical Crusader Paul de Kruif, who has turned over his radio rights to Microbe Hunters, Hunger Fighters, Men Against Death, Why Keep Them Alive, The Fight for Life. Dramatization of all these books in order went into production this week, will be a CBS coast-to-coaster Thursday evenings at 8 beginning June 30. NBC's projected...
...Robin Hood" is not an epic, despite the excellent filming by Technicolor; it is not a classic, for its departs too much from the classical legends; it is a most entertaining melodrama with a proper mixture of suspense, comedy, and romance...
Florencio Molina Campos never had a drawing lesson and he swears he couldn't draw a straight line if his life depended on it. In a style which fairly often succeeds in being comic, epic and pastoral at the same time, he has done more than 600 tempera and watercolor drawings of Gaucho life on the pampas of Argentina as he remembers it from his own childhood. So crammed with vitality are his buck-toothed cowboys and hammer-headed broncos, thrown into relief by strong, earthy tempera colors, that Pio Collivadino, onetime director of the National School of Decorative...