Word: loved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal employes. John Hanes's understanding of the scarcity and paucity of new tax avenues, and of the woes of taxpayers-for whom he often personally holds court-makes him a darling of the Garner-Harrison economy bloc in the new Congress, a group which had no love for Mr. Oliphant. He should be able to wheedle more revenue-raising taxes from them than any social experimenter...
...appeared. The audience could not have been bigger or more enthusiastic had he been Shirley Temple. With some acerbity he questioned the propriety of Senators publicly examining a nominee for the nation's highest court.* With feeling he told how his father, a Viennese Jew, had "fallen in love" with America on a business trip, brought his family over...
...Ibsen did. I take the life of a small village and enlarge it to encompass all human life." It is finding a theme that takes time with him; writing comes easy. He plans no more religious plays. The theme of his next work, Kindred, is that a common love for art can bind people more strongly than blood or nationality...
Ireland, though he has no wish to live in it-"I am not one of those sentimental Irishmen who love leprechauns and hobs" -is the country Carroll will go on writing about. The U. S., where at present he is visiting, he would not live in either, but its theatre is the one in the world that excites him. Scotland, though dramatically a cipher, is the place to live -because "its people leave you alone." England, full of "those gentle barbarians so much more dangerous than bloody barbarians," he despises...
...healthy little sermons about "the criminal lunatics sitting around a big table." For although Basil Rathbone does a good job as the villain, Mars is the real villain. The "poor man's war" angle is unconvincingly put forward, but the flying sequences are good. The picture is sans love interest, with nary a woman...