Word: freshet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps "Hollywood Cavalcade," as its title implies, is meant to tell the evolution of the movie industry from a puny stream to a raging torrent. But as the film works out, it tells of a rollicking freshet that grew into a sprawling, limpid river. To apostles of "progress" in the movie industry, this picture is indeed discouraging, for as it progresses from its first sequences of riotous cinematic primitivism it steadily loses audience interest...
...Reppliay) has more than the ordinary good Catholic's interest in Mere Marie, for she was educated at the Ursuline Sa cred Heart Convent at Torresdale, Pa., be fore she submitted herself to the non-sectarian influences of the Universities of Pennsylvania, Yale and Columbia. Many a spring freshet has gurgled under the bridge since she published her first book of essays in 1888, but she is still one of the mainstays of Boston's august Atlantic Monthly. With Princeton's equally down right Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Agnes Repplier shares first place among present...
blithe as a freshet over ulcered legs...