Word: epically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...western Pennsylvania. The home-drilled well that Peter Cortlandt has rigged up behind his grandmother's house comes in the day of his wedding, spouting a geyser of oil that drenches the wedding party and turns the bride's dress black. What follows is Peter's epic fight with the head of a railroad line (Alan Hale) for control of the new industry. When the railroads boost freight rates to force the farmers to sell out their oil lands, Peter and his friends start a pipe line to the refinery. The railroad's strong-arm gang...
...Khan changed his mind about the slaughter. Wee Willie Winkie is a craftsman's picture which is also, surpassingly, an audience's picture. To able Associate Producer Gene Markey goes credit for seeing how the suggestions implicit in the Kipling fragment could be nursed into an epic; to able Director John Ford (The Informer), responsibility for the picture's pace, its sustained adventurous mood, its accumulation of memorable physical details; to Actors C. Aubrey Smith and Victor McLaglen the complete realization of two roles as great as any they ever played. Outstanding scenes: McLaglen getting washed...
...Angeles, Pastor Carl Allen of Woodcrest Community Methodist Episcopal Church got the approval of his governing board to change the Sabbath services for his flock of 115 to Thursday evening. A confirmed reformer who went on the stump for Upton Sinclair's EPIC last year, long-faced, sober Pastor Allen explained: "The residents of this community are working every possible day to make up for the worry during the Depression. ... I believe they should be free to go to the beach or mountains Sunday without feeling it is wrong. . . . Jesus consistently taught that man was to have preference over...
...transmission tower, asks for a job; it ends, after Red falls to his death in a high-wire accident, with Slim climbing a tower in a blizzard to resume the repair job thus interrupted. Told with a drawling, mournful humor, the film builds up to a little epic in the sardonic idiom of one of the world's most necessary, most dangerous, least publicized trades...
Author Hendrick was no petty popularizer, rushing into print to meet a political opportunity or beat the Liberty Bell. Neither New Dealers nor Republicans could make resounding political copy of his book, but New Dealers are sure to like it better. The burden of Mr. Hendrick's epic song is: Fear not. The Constitution has survived much worse storms than this one, is not really so much a bulwark as a life-raft-"a living and fluid instrument, built not for an age, but for all time, responsive to the needs of a changing world." He reminds gloomy headshakers...