Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good show. The artistry of Miss Colbert's performance is matched by the smooth direction, and just the right tempo is maintained throughout. There are several good comedy scenes. The narcotic sister who goes on a hunger strike of some terrific duration--about half an hour. Both parts are excellently written and played, as is that of the butler. Michael Harret sings and acts his part will, but he's just a dummy, tossed in because a third man was needed...
...page news and Henry Ford's announcement that he would build 1,000,000 cars was a refreshing breath of optimism. In Washington the Railroad Retirement Act went out as unconstitutional. In Miami Legionaries shouted for immediate cash payment of the Bonus. In Denver and Albany there were hunger marchers. Donald Richberg had just been named co-ordinator-in-general to set the cosmic alphabet in order. From coast to coast the issue was whether Harry Hopkins, playing Santa Claus at the rate of $140,000,000 a month, was corrupting the electorate. On all sides were squabbles, hopes...
...months of 1935. Not one but two million shares a day were changing hands on the New York Stock Exchange and stocks after a seven-month climb were at their highest levels since the New Deal took office. Unemployment was still high, relief plans still in a muddle, but hunger marchers were nowhere. The Bonus was conceded victory in the next session of Congress. Only two disturbances loomed ahead: 1) the possibility of the Supreme Court's invalidating AAA's processing taxes; 2) the growing issue of Government spending to be faced in the next budget...
...arms it appears certain that Martini has established himself as the screen's No. 1 tenor just as certainly as Grace Moore is its soprano and Lawrence Tibbett its baritone. What producers will do in the future for material to satisfy the public's new hunger for classic singing remains vague but pictures like Here's To Romance make it seem likely that before long the cinema, if only by exhausting the supply of arias, will create its own grand opera...
Under the urge of a chance adventure, and driven by pride and hunger, I found a task and dreamed a dream which held me all the days of my boyhood, and now occupies my every working hour, and will never be fulfilled even though I live the 80 and odd years that have been foretold...