Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back cracked Nominee Landon in Topeka: "This Administration seems to be finding a lot of red herrings. It's too bad we can't eat them. ... As I said to Kansas newspapermen some time ago, we are not only having censorship of news but censorship of the sources of news under this Administration. . . . The New Deal is resisting every attempt to get the facts about the WPA. . . . As I have said before, they are afraid that publicity would reveal waste and extravagance...
...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 gradually give...
...Jackie Cooper if you insist, draws Mickey Rooney into the trade of tire stealing. It seems that he needs eighty dollars to buy a tombstone for his father, who has just been electrocuted. Freddy stumbles on their plans, and convinces them that they could get eighty dollars a lot more quickly by stealing toys from millionaires. But he is really the hero just the same. E.H.B...
Among U. S. expatriate writers a tall, midwestern girl named Kay Boyle has emerged as the most prolific of the lot. In the last three years she has published six volumes. Master of a spectacular if not always lucid prose, she has told the story of the death of a tuberculous writer in Year Before Last, described life in homosexual circles in Gentlemen, I Address You Privately, and in general written of tempestuous artistic spirits who have a weakness for flowery language. Last week she offered U. S. readers a novel cut in the same pattern as her previous works...
...AFRICAN WITCH-Joyce Gary- Morrow ($2.50). Long, semirealistic novel laid in British West Africa, revolving around the defeat of a handsome, English-educated native chieftain in his attempts to improve the lot of his people. Witchcraft, riots of native women, the governing methods of the British, a decapitation, the inept assistance of a sentimental English lady, contribute to his failure...