Word: loree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...avoided the entertainments of the voyage, preferring to go to bed early and get up at dawn, read Conrad, study Malaya, brood upon the remarkable changes since his first trip East 27 years before, and talk with the captain about the lore of the lands they passed. Passing Aden he thought of Rimbaud's tragic fate, and of how strange it was that the Frenchman should be the favorite poet of "a man so immaculate in thought, word and deed as Mr. Anthony Eden." Passing Ethiopia he thought of Conrad, who wrote a chapter of Almayer's Folly...
...examinations for the diplomatic service, which he barely passed. Then began his formative training. After routine duty in South America, he went to Peiping where he served under one of Italy's great masters of diplomacy, Daniele Vare, the Minister to China and an eminent student of its lore. During this time Admiral Ciano, with the astuteness of an old campaigner, was on watch in Rome and when he found that Premier Mussolini was about to solve the "Roman Question" by making a treaty with Pope Pius XI, got Son Galeazzo recalled from China just in time to squeeze...
...hardly necessary to recite the mad plot of "The Man Who Knew Too Much"; for at least a year it has been incorporated into our modern folk-lore. Leslie Banks is fine as one of the harassed, trouble-seeking parents, and Nova Pilbeam, since grown to royal stature in "Nine Days a Queen" is credible as the kidnapped child. And of course Peter Lorre, as the ringleader of the ugliest gang over collected within the walls of one studio, contributes that famous characterization of controlled deadly ferocity...
Pleased with Daniel Boone, Producer George A. Hirliman commissioned Screenwriter Edgecumb Pinchon to write two more scenarios based on school-book lore: one with Sam Houston as hero, one with Davy Crockett...
...IMMENSE SUN-Blair Niles- Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). Historical romance set in 16th Century Peru. Author Niles, who spent two years on the scene absorbing local color, researching into Inca lore, turns out a monument to industry, if not artistry...