Word: idol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dinner in the House and afterwards to my Attic to smoke for a minute, when H--and I go off again--to the movies. Franchot Tone very amusing, poor ex-idol Clark Gable on the way down hill. On the way home talk about Douglas Fairbanks in "Robin Hood"--wish they would remake "Robin Hood". With anybody but Fred March. So to bed at no later than eleven for a sweet night's sleep...
...blond charm and gentle British passivity have on occasion seemed to endow plays like The Petrified Forest with a brooding, thoughtful quality not indicated in the script. But, as those who saw his film Romeo last spring might have guessed, the nation's No. 1 matinee idol does not have so easy a time with William Shakespeare as with Robert Sherwood Shocked and disappointed at Actor Howard's failure in the most ambitious and demanding male role on the English-speak ing stage, critics found the Howard Hamlet enervated, thoughtless, unilluminating...
...Flatiron Building being asked by a bystander if he were hurt. Comeback: "No, I jump off this building every day to limber up for business." Thousands of subsequent Foolish Questions were published, followed by I'm the Guy, an equally celebrated series. Sometimes as sardonic as his cartooning idol, San Francisco's salty Thomas Aloysius ("Tad") Dorgan, Rube Goldberg fathered in his drawings such sayings as "It's a lot of baloney!" "Now that you've got it, what are you going to do with it?" and "They all look good when they...
...spent a year in Platte County Jail in Missouri writing a treatise on "A System of Accounts for A Small Consumer's Co-Operative." Later as a trusty bookkeeper in the Federal penitentiary at Leavenworth he: 1) met his boyhood idol Big Bill Hay wood and 2) was allowed to study all the books on economics and socialism he wanted. A week after he was paroled he joined the Communist Party, spent five years with William Z. Foster boring from within the American Federation of Labor, later visited Russia, passed two years as a union organizer in Hankow, returned...
...generals complain of pains and illness, long to be away. The faithful Corsican attendant Cipriani (Jules Epailly) dies. Las Cases (Alan Wheatley), smugly cherishing his biographical notes, is sent away by the British -without his notes. Gourgaud (Joseph Macaulay), sulking like a jealous mistress when anyone else approaches his idol, finds his lot unendurable, weeps, departs. Suffering from confinement and a bad liver, Napoleon is haunted at night by the spectres of his mistakes. He cannot forget, he says, that if he had not attacked so soon at Waterloo, he would have had 12,000 more men. The imperial manners...