Word: hoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last phenomenon, screwball comedies. In 1938 the industry stopped going forward, began going backward. The retrogression took three forms: 1) a series of revivals of old pictures, from The Sheik to Dracula; 2) a series of remakes, from If I Were King to The Adventures of Robin Hood; 3) a series of disguised remakes and delayed sequels like Going Places, The Chaser, Tarzan's Revenge...
When Oscar Sher crashed into Thomas Barrett's car in New Jersey two years ago, Barrett's nose was cut off. A policeman found it on the hood of Barrett's car, rushed it to the hospital where it was stitched back in place. But in court last fortnight, Barrett told a sad tale: his appliquéd nose had sloughed off. He had to have a new one modeled out of cartilage. Jury's award...
...pictures of 1938, as selected by Film Daily's annual poll of 536 newspaper, syndicate and magazine critics: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; You Can't Take It with You; Alexander's Ragtime Band; Boys Town; Marie Antoinette; In Old Chicago; The Adventures of Robin Hood; The Citadel; Love Finds Andy Hardy; Hurricane...
...Wart also encounters a witch, a giant who apparently represents 20th-century totalitarianism, and Robin Hood, whose real name, according to White, was Robin Wood. (The W slurred off, and recent highbrow scholars, thinking 'ood a Cockney abbreviation, added H.) After all his adventures the Wart still has strength enough to pull the legendary magic sword out of the anvil, win the right to be King Arthur...
...journalistic responsibility to name poets poets, poetasters poetasters, and poeticules poeticules. For the poets' effort to make words make sense is an effort to make the thing on which all human communication-letter-writing, conversation, journalism, literature-ultimately depends. To the extent that poets fulfill their poet-hood they are making human communication more possible. To the extent that poets lapse into poetastiness or poeticulosity they are perverting or muddling human communication...