Word: lovely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From that den he fired the editorials that brought praise from President Woodrow Wilson, whom he loved and supported until the League of Nations issue burgeoned in 1919. There he fell in love with traditions, with constitutionalism, with Alexander Hamilton. He still wears a rosette of the Sons of the American Revolution in his coat lapel...
...this had been taken as the keynote of the speech, Wall Street's war babies might have ceased to bounce, but the Führer also said: "We are all men who in their long struggle have been nothing but attacked. That only tended to increase the love of our followers. . . . [When Britons say] that this war will last three years, then I can only say my sympathies are with the French poilu. At present he knows that he will have to fight for at least three years. ... If it should last for three years then the word capitulation...
...their characteristic length and considerable dross, some seem almost too attractive, too clearly themselves. Not that Shakespeare's flops are spared. "The poet in The Comedy of Errors puffs with unnatural effort. . . . His rhymes . . . rattle like bleached bones." But The Merchant of Venice, in which money and love go hand in hand and uncorrupted, is a "gentlemen's world," inhabited by "creatures whose only function is to sound in their lives the clear depths of human grace." In Henry IV, however, Van Doren considers that Shakespeare came to mastery by discovering that poetry can be better than beautiful...
...with the producers, who have furnished her with a hackneyed story of family misfortune and bickering among New York's upper crust. Although devoid of the sparkling dialogue and unusual situations of the earlier film, "Fifth Avenue Girl" does have numerous entertaining moments, particularly the scenes of nocturnal love in Central Park. Excellent acting by the leading players also contributes towards making up at least in part for the weak plot; Miss Rogers is as luscious and lovely as ever and receives able support from Walter Connolly, the harried, home-loving financier who prefers beef stew to champagne...
...Child of Our Time tells a no less timely story. Central character is a young Nazi lance-corporal, for whom the Nazi slogan, "The individual doesn't count," is not merely a slogan but a true observation based on his pre-Hitler, threadbare misery. "With love, a man may reach heaven," he quotes. "With hatred," he adds, "we shall go farther...