Word: findings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have become demigods shattering the peace of our bedrooms and laying waste our bankrolls. I know a God-fearing man who got drunk for a week after a little fairy of a plumber got into his home for one day. It took the God-fearing citizen a year to find his religion again. And Mr. Sanders runs true to his tribe; he's oh, so chesty. He wrote you: "The Catholic Hierarchy does not speak for me." All right, Mr. Steam and Gas Fitter, I don't fancy Catholic bishops will lose their rings or their tempers about...
...South's reaction to this political Hooverization was divided. The Atlanta Constitution said: "Good?If It Stands." The Jackson, Miss., Daily News declared: "They have taken him [Hoover] to a mountain top and shown him the promised land, but on closer inspection he will find it is only a mirage. . . . The G. 0. P. is the Negro party . . . and always will...
...Phillip Barry's comedy of the younger generation, still draws the crowds and a curious hodge-podge of critical evaluation, from those who think its smart sophistication eminently satisfactory to those who consider it a hasty re-hash of idle chatter by the smart young New Yorkers one may find at the Algonquin. Jed Harris has two shows on view, the profane and colorful newspaper show, "Front Page" and a not entirely successful fantasy, but a play like none other now in New York, "Serena Blandish", in which Ruth Gordon, A. E. Matthews and Constance Collier depict the languid game...
...brown stone front of a West Side tenement--and what plot it has is incidential to its theme of the tragic force of a sordid environment in the lives of a small group of human beings. It is distinguished, incidently, by the most terrifying murder one may find on any stage of the Rialto. The third hardest play to get tickets for is the Theatre Guild's production of "Caprice", a light and not too well written farce by the Hungarian Sil-Vara, made vastly entertaining by the direction of Philip Moeller and the fine playing of Alfred Lunt...
Those who prefer the old order will find "Geraldine" as interesting a picture, in its way, as the feature it is a variation of the old theme a very plain girl is shown how to become very lovely and things begin to happen...