Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been overturned, deliveries came virtually to a-halt. At week's end union officials claimed the stores had lost $1,000,000 worth of sales. Dumbfounded were their owners, who had been confident that the city would forbid mass picketing. Instead, Mayor S. Davis Wilson, who devoted his main speech before the U. S. Conference of Mayors in Washington last week to boasting the efficiency of his personal Labor Relations Board, proved more than friendly to the picketers. Only rules were that they must keep moving, not talk to customers. When strikers smashed the headlights on a store truck...
...Main thing Domini and Boris have in common, conveniently for Producer Selznick's cameras, is a wish to see the desert. They do it in a caravan whose manager is a bubbling young Algerian named Batouch (Joseph Schildkraut). Tripping about the North Sahara they enjoy life to the full until one night a French Army officer, lost with his troop, happens on their camp. When Batouch brings in a bottle of the Trappist liqueur Lagarnine, the officer remembers where he has met Boris before. Without so much as saying, "It's a small world after all," he goes...
...often weakened Sir Hudson Lowe's already feeble intelligence. When Napoleon was dying of cancer, vomiting consistently, Lowe damned his agony as more play acting, refused the medical care which Napoleon demanded. After two weeks of his last illness, when his anguish had become intense, Napoleon's main thought was to keep his English enemy from, finding out how miserable he was. And as he was virtually breathing his last, the greatest trouble-maker in history could not refrain from sowing a little posthumous dissension: he gave some valuable books to English officers, so that the tactless Lowe...
...addition to the main biographical thread, Professor Brinton has dropped numerous little side-remarks--bits of sparkling philosophy and good humor--that make his work an altogether pleasing account. He seems to have written his book with an impish smile for his Puritan readers...
...weave in and out of the movie. There is the tragic love of Anthony's mother, the cruel ambition of the Spaniard to gain the Bonnyfeather fortune, and the romance between Anthony and his wife which is ruined by accidents outside their control. They are side issues to the main theme, which is Anthony's ambtion to make his name known and respected and to found a strong family...