Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood, Calif...
...tourist attraction than scenery or climate. Visitors from the East don't show much interest in Yosemite, the Redwoods or the orange groves, but they fall all over themselves to see evidences of our human phenomena-such as the folks at Aimee's Angelus Temple and on Hollywood Boulevard, the Iowans at Elysian Park, and supporters of the "$30-every-Thursday." In short, the pinheads have at last eclipsed the halfdomes on the California scene...
...they number 65,000 (TIME'S figure) and control the C.I.O., the A.F. of L., the American League for Peace and Democracy, the unemployed, the PWA, Farley's Post Office, half of the colleges, the Protestant churches, the Federal Theatre and Art Project, the Farmer-Labor Party, Hollywood, the Newspaper Guild, the State Department, I suggest they be used to sell air-conditioning and thus remake this country as did mass production of the automobile...
...Lasker Foundation for Medical Research; and Doris Kenyon Sills Hopkins, 41, onetime cinemactress (Monsieur Beaucaire), concert singer, widow of the late Cinemactor Milton Sills; he for the second, she for the third time; in Manhattan. Fortnight before, Adman Lasker had been proposed as head of a committee to regulate Hollywood Producers' conduct (TIME...
Last year he visited the U. S. to raise money for Spain. To big audiences he talked with almost untranslatable rapidity and eloquence; to small groups of writers from Princeton to Hollywood he preached his favorite literary message: the value to literature of active political careers by its creators. Long an admirer of U. S. literature (he introduced William Faulkner to France, considers him the first U. S. novelist, likes Hemingway and the novels of Dashiell Hammett), he was amazed at the remoteness of U. S. writing men from world problems. In Hollywood he made three money-raising speeches, made...