Word: fears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King, long suspected of Italian leanings-even his coachmen are Neapolitans-last week gave the first public indication that, like his father, King Fuad, he is ready to play ball with the British. Fear of Mussolini has of late become real in Egypt and the main declaration of Farouk's message was to place Egypt squarely behind Prime Minister Chamberlain and the British-Italian pact signed last week in Rome (see p. 16). Egyptian delegates attended the Rome conferences. "The Anglo-Italian agreement," declared Farouk, "is the surest guarantee of peace...
...lands. Best argument to use on prospective lenders is evidence of a desire to pay and thus last week Señora Cárdenas and other politicos' wives donated table silver and trinkets (see cut). Wealthy Mexicans took almost no part, since they hate and fear Cárdenas. Poor Mexican women were snapped bringing in chickens-worth in Mexico about one peso (25?)-as their contribution, while banners were unfurled (see cut) reading: "LIVE TO BE FREE! OR DIE TO CEASE BEING SLAVES! (Signed) THE WOMEN." On the sixth day of the collection a dispatch from
...thoughtful story, by Lieut. Commander Frank Wead (Ceiling Zero, China Clipper), conceives two sodden-nerved men, one a swaggering, hard-living and egotistic pilot (Clark Gable), the other his patient, understanding mechanic (Spencer Tracy). On the fear-tortured mind of the flyer's wife (Myrna Loy) their almost brutal fatalism rasps like a file. Credit for blending this grounded mental conflict with the melodrama of wings in the air, screaming struts and whining motors goes to Director Victor Fleming (Captains Courageous). Not the least of his accomplishments was to exact performances that verge on reality from pert, actressy Myrna...
Next product of Poet MacLeish's top-working was a radio-play-poem, The Fall of the City, broadcast in 1937. A radio-studio innovation, it presented Fascism as a spook-in-armor, stalking in on and taking control of a nation paralyzed by inertia, fear and propaganda. Few listeners-in agreed on the poetic merits of what the rather wild air waves had been saying, but most did agree that if Fascism should come to the U. S. it would come as a man, not a spook, agreed also that in The Fall of the City Radio-Play...
...hazer the first day, again licked the school bully, was editor of the college literary magazine. At Vanderbilt University he worked his way through (seven hours a day) and got along for months on one meal a day. As principal of the Greenup County High School he put the fear of God into the town toughs who interrupted school entertainments...