Word: minority
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other parties combined against him. Elected at first with a precarious majority, for the last five years his government has had to depend on Labor support to hold office. Month ago, his own political stock soaring as a result of the Anglo-Irish treaty, "Dev" shrewdly seized upon a minor government rebuff as an excuse to dissolve Parliament and go to the country...
...bleacherites who had paid 55?) felt that they had just about received their money's worth, the umpire croaked "Play ball." The visiting team was the Cincinnati Reds, MacPhail's old boys, most of whom he himself had rounded up from the minor leagues...
...typical American boy" in a movie short, nor the fact that he had struck out 295 batters two years ago during the twelve weeks he was pitching for the Durham Bulls (a Red farm)-for an average of 12.33 Per nine-inning game-and was voted the No. 1 minor leaguer of the year. They were not concerned by the fact that he had won six games in a row this season (in which he allowed only three runs), and was leading the league in strikeouts with 65. What riled Brooklynites was the fact that Johnny Vander Meer had once...
...projecting Broadway plays through the magnifying lenses of the cinema, minor alterations like these are usually inevitable. Fortunately, there was one Jewish name which the producers of Having Wonderful Time were not forced to change: the author's. Given the job of killing many of his own best lines, Author Kober did so with purposeful objectivity. He also supplied new ones which were in many cases even better. Consequently, like an enlarged photograph which brings out virtues unsuspected in its smaller original, the cinema version of Having Wonderful Time is a kind of streamlined folk comedy, hilarious not because...
White Banners (Warner Bros.) continues the campaign of moral uplift which its author, Lloyd Cassel Douglas, started in Magnificent Obsession and Green Light. Central character of Green Light was a bubbly jocular minister who, when the minor characters in the story became upset, explained to them that humanity was a kind of automotive parade best governed by the traffic signals of unselfishness. In White Banners, the minister is replaced by a warm-hearted maid-of-all-work named Hannah (Fay Bainter). Otherwise, the formula is much the same. When Hannah straggles into the household of a high-school science teacher...