Word: heroes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Communists, the Socialist-Laborites are incorrigibly consistent in refusing to make any temporary concessions to capitalism in the hope of long-range gains. Last week the Socialist-Laborites achieved the absolute in consistency. The party's Weekly People printed an open letter to Labor's recently freed Hero Tom Mooney...
...story of the Gunthers is wholly symbolic. Real hero of the play is the American outlook, its love of enterprise and liberty. This is an inspiring theme. But working crudely, emotionally, in headlines, Kaufman & Hart over-sentimentalize their theme. Canny showmen, they know that if, as Dr. Johnson said, patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, it is also one of the first salvations of a box office; that mother love and dying for one's country are not only the stuff of great art but also the surefire cliches of popular entertainment; that a cavalcade...
...Greene, you may enjoy the fine technical effects (especially the fog) of this bloodless movie. The film's makers have had to go afield from the old love-interest, which is a pretty wet gag in Hollywood now, and have substituted a branch of the Navy as the real hero. So they escape some of the soggier romance of Boy and Girl. The scene where the sub-chaser sneaks through the mine-filled fog and destroys an enemy submarine at its base is very well done. An unworthy companion is "The Jones Family" who are down on the farm...
...groups together earned $4,878, while the largest earnings $30,492, went to 239 waiters including 60 in the Freshman Dining Hall. The new positions as House Athletic Secretaries, created last year, provided 25 upperclassmen with earnings of $4,350. Among its unusual placements the Office supplied the hero and villain for a pictorialized serial in a local tabloid, a man with good eyesight to inspect the life buoys which hang from various bridges in and around Boston, and the Harvard members of a combined Harvard-Radcliffe team which took part in the first trans-Atlantic spelling bee with Oxford...
...that it is to be killed, he thinks, "Well, maybe a mule standing in a lot looks big to a man that never walked up to one with a halter before." With that he jumps overboard, catches the alligator around the neck, stabs it. The convict becomes a local hero...