Word: heroes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Africa. They would rather see the world's richest gold and diamond mines, the Rand and Kimberley, exploited by Britain than raped by Germany. The Boer leader who gets on best with Britain is white-bearded old Jan Christiaan Smuts, soldier of the Boer and World Wars, national hero and ex-Prime Minister...
Golden Boy (Columbia) is not the first prize-fighter picture whose hero fails to win the championship, but it is the first to portray a fighter as a pitiable neurotic. Joe Bonaparte (William Holden) has a beautiful pair of hands, which he can use to equal effect playing the violin or smashing a face. The violin seems likely to win out with thoughtful Joe until Manager Tom Moody (Adolphe Menjou), threatened with the loss of a promising meal ticket, gets his girl, Lorna Moon (Barbara Stanwyck), to stiffen Joe's spine. In Clifford Odets' play, Joe never...
Rufous, rotund Sergeant Alvin C. York, backwoods schoolteacher who became U. S. World War Hero No. 1 by capturing 132 Germans singlehanded, predicted that World War II would be short, set a 30-day time limit before the "great Hitler disappearance" into Holland...
...college mate of President Roosevelt, sententious, well-stuffed socialite who delights in shocking his stumer friends, embarked for Portugal to resume his diplomatic duties. Asked if Portugal would become a hot spot, he replied: "I wouldn't be going back if I thought so. I'm no hero...
Mild, professorial Brazilla Carrol Reece, Republican Representative from Tennessee, World War hero, disembarked in Los Angeles from the Matson liner Matsonia, leaving his wife and daughter on board. When he tried to rejoin them, a pier guard at the gang plank refused to let him pass. At that Hero Reece grappled with the guard, bit his ear good & proper...