Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Teagle in 1929 and 1931. She was gun- shy and bird-shy, a "hopeless case," when Handler Chesley Harris began her training. Doctor Blue Willing is a three-year-old whose pace on the big circuits marked him as championship material this year. They started under ideal conditions at 9 a. m.-bright sun, ground drying, little wind-and the dog found a bevy within the first five minutes, then another and another. The bitch warmed steadily to her work and evened this score within the first hour. They found covey for covey during the next hour...
...that it's done-now that Will Rogers has been gives his ideal role as last --it seems abased that it was never find before. The firm executives, to be sure, always best him as an old fashioned Yankee type out the emphasis was always placed on the wrong Yankee characteristics. Either he was provoking general merriment by some faus pas of the "Howdly Duchess" varsity or he was being evicted or swindled by some a lick newcomer. In "David Herum," however, he is not only a Yankee type but a smart Yankee. The scene is not Paris or Hollywood...
What happened in that interval has been written about and told many times, with many variations. Two years ago M-G-M decided that a story based on Rasputin and the Russian court would be ideal material to exhibit the varied talents of the Barrymore family. Ethel could be regal and throaty as the Tsarina. Lionel could leer and spit as Rasputin. John could push his delicate profile through a series of love scenes as a Prince Chegodiev. There was also a Princess Natasha with whom Chegodiev was in love. When Rasputin seduces Princess Natasha, Chegodiev proceeds to murder...
...maintenance of traditional forms; and there can be but little doubt that it is a losing battle that he is waging. The forces of democracy and constitutionalism are very plainly on the wane in every country in the world. It is a vast movement that swings away from an ideal that has dominated European life since the Council of Constance, the idea of liberty as the most worthwhile and important goal toward which mankind should struggle. Only temporarily interrupted by the triumph of the forces of royal absolutism, in the nineteenth century the idea of liberty became the great intellectual...
...socialism, and Bolshevism. That love and marriage had been abolished in the latter state and that schoolboys were throwing spitballs at Almighty God delighted this iconoclast. But it is the religion of love as symbolized and poetized in Christian dogma that brings him to conversion. Religion supplied the necessary ideal meaning of his earthly and therefore transient love. The similar position that the philosophic poet and man of letters, George Santayana, has taken in the past ten years may clarify what this miracle play is trying to express. Santayana has returned to the catholic form of Christianity because he feels...