Word: humblest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Meade's Woman which is geared to these phenomena is an effectively written, well-photographed slice of U. S. industrial history. Less effective is the overlong recital of the process by which John Meade comes to jilt his society sweetheart (Gail Patrick) by marriage with the humblest woman he can find (Francine Larrimore). At times patently uneasy with the camera's quiet tempo, Miss Larrimore on the whole does well in her first screening, especially when she gets a chance to turn on high-tension dramatics. Her best scene: telling John Meade why she has decided...
...tyrants, suggests Spivak, are clowns, its people poltroons. Benito Mussolini has the worst economic situation in Europe and the least rebellion to contend with. Nevertheless, though every Fascist officer says, "There are no strikes in Italy," Spivak dug out records of 153 illegal strikes under Fascism. The humblest Italian is paralyzed with fear by the secret police ("The Bats") headed by an imitation Mussolini. Another imitation Mussolini, handsome President Tullio Cianetti of the Confederation of Labor, conceded that "Fascism has not abolished the class struggle or class distinctions." Mussolini, says Spivak, has smashed the middle classes, degraded the workers...
...house as part payment. For three days immediately after the Cabinet Ministers were told the contents of Neville Chamberlain's red leather Budget box, Alfred Bates and Jim Thomas played golf together. On the stand last week Jim Thomas' hearty voice became the humblest murmur...
...pressure of business and all the powerful influences inclining America to live in contemptuous ignorance of the rest of the world, and especially of the past, the Latin School, supported by the people of Boston, has kept the embers of traditional learning alive, at which the humblest rush-light might be lighted; has kept the highway clear for every boy to the professions of theology, law, medicine, and teaching, and a window open to the mind from these times to other times and from this place to other places.' That the service of the Latin School has been invaluable...
Cried the Realmbishop in benediction, "The love of the entire nation, from the Leader to the humblest citizen, accompanies you this...