Word: heartlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whose civilization is on the make, and the Trojans, whose civilization is (in the best sense) finished. She makes her mouth piece-heroine a character unmentioned by Homer-Cressida, daughter of the Trojan's Chief Priest of Apollo, ill-famed in literature (by Boccaccio, Chaucer, Shakespeare) as a heartless jilt. Chosen as a central character because her "legendary real" identity offers the widest freedom for creating a sensitive female observer, Laura Riding's Cressida is not jilt but "almost in her time what woman may be in ours.'' This Cressida does not leave her Trojan lover...
Virginia Travis (Miriam Hopkins), an aspiring architectural student, applies to B. J. Nolan (Charles Winninger) for a job with his projected model suburb. She finds Nolan is bankrupt, his heartless son Kenneth (Joel McCrea). possessor of a million dollars, having refused to help him. Kenneth, a cautious man when sober, will buy anything when drunk, and the climax of Woman Chases Man is the way in which Miss Travis gets Kenneth's signature to the contract for Nolan Heights. Her efforts are complicated by the connivings of Nina Tennyson (Leona Maricle) whom Kenneth has brought home with him from...
...professors brought forth vague plans, and even these did not agree. A Frenchman was fatuous, an American was reflective, an Englishman was optimistic, but it took a Chinaman to pour cold water on the whole project in a stream of heartless logic. While Dr. Etienne Gilson had the European's traditional and misplaced confidence in the American public, Professor Malinowski of London asserted sensibly that any such organization hopeful of success must be backed by force. Here is nothing new. There is no doubt today that a League of Nations with "horsepower" would enforce the peace its founders dreamed...
...forgot about being a drunkard, so exhausted and stimulated by rage he did not miss his usual morning half tumbler of Scotch. Thus the cure began. After he had bawled out doctors, nurses and the world in general, calling for a padded cell as preferable to modern scientific, heartless hypocrisy, another patient told him quietly: "Say, fellow, you've got it all wrong. You don't tell them. They tell you." Once he had accepted its concealed, but absolutely inflexible, discipline. William Seabrook found the asylum a pleasant and interesting lockup. Soon he was walking miles through...
...newshawks, accompanied by Erskine Caldwell's father, to investigate Writer Caldwell's charges. The Chronicle's editorial challenge: "Once proven not to be true let's tell the world about it, so that millions of people in this country may not believe that we are heartless heathens. If by any chance Caldwell is right, let's know the truth, admit it with shame and humiliation and go about correcting it." For what the Augusta Chronicle admits, and what it has to tell the world...