Word: flower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Operator 13 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) shows the Civil War, lately neglected by the cinema, with MGM improvements. These include the Four Mills Brothers; the flower of the Central Casting Bureau cavorting in ball rooms or on battlefields; cavalry charges directed by Richard Boleslavsky (Way of the Lancer); Marion Davies and Gary Cooper, romantically disguised; a spy plot derived from stories by the late Robert W. Chambers...
...Class Day officers are as follows: M. A. Shattuck, R. Cobb. D. A. Freeman, P. Zach, F. W. Hatch. G. D. Flynn, H. McA. Lloyd, M. Phinney, G. A. Brownell, F. Parkman, G. C. Barelay, R. M. Gross, H. C. Flower. C. Canfield, C. A. Clark, Jr., and L. K. Garrison...
Hero-narrator is Claudius himself, least considered member of that Imperial family whose fine flower was Augustus, first Emperor of Rome. Born prematurely, and afflicted all his life with a limp, a stammer and a sense of humor. Claudius lived to thank his stars that he was not a conspicuous member of his clan. His grandmother Livia, Augustus' wife, was a woman of decided and dangerous character and her schemes for ruling the Empire made frequent use of murder. Claudius was not even allowed to marry whom he liked. The pretty girl he wanted was murdered on their betrothal...
...decrease in almost direct proportion to its development of a true social consciousness. ... In a word, if FORTUNE produces a few more such masterpieces, while selling at a dollar a copy, there'll probably be no circulation. The "professional Communist's" description of FORTUNE as a "stinking flower of capitalism" is well representative of the party's dreary mentality. Speaking as a Communist, I should prefer to praise its technical excellence, and to deprecate its esthetically revolting preoccupation with the glorification of big business-at the same time offering it as an extraordinarily fine indictment of American...
...Colonel risks his popularity to preserve law & order. When the boom collapses anyway and there is a run on the bank, the Colonel quickly becomes the most hated man in town. But nothing really hits him hard until his daughter turns out to be a different species of flower from the one the Colonel always considered synonymous with Southern womanhood. That breaks up his world. When a bomb brings down his unfinished cathedral on top of him it is almost an anticlimax...