Word: gaud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...millenniums and a quarter later, last week, Adolf Hitler's newspaper Völkischer Beobachter drew a fanciful parallel: Joseph Stalin with Alexander the Great. No two men could be less alike. Alexander loved gaud and baubles; Stalin likes big boots and old brown tunics. Vain Alexander refused to grow a beard on the specious grounds that it would afford a handle which an opponent in war might grasp; diffident Stalin wears huge mustachios to make himself look more inscrutable. Alexander was imaginative, athletic, quick as an ocelot; Stalin is practical, ponderous, deliberate as a bear. Only similarity: Diogenes...
...great, bashful sailor does not return, his widow-bride is shown to be weeping all the time, instead of somehow conveying, as she does in the book, the idea of an endless and agonized waiting. An incident of this period, perhaps the most poignant of all, in which Gaud leaps from bed in the midst of a rainy night, in answer to a knock, only to find that it is not her lover Yann, is entirely omitted from the film...
...parts of Yann and Gaud are acted a little too grossly by obscure players. Even Yvette Guilbert, in the role of the girl's aged grandmother who always has something to sorrow over, tries too hard, and may frequently be caught red-handed in the attempt to steal the scene from the speaker...