Word: nests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...NEST OF SIMPLE FOLK-Sean O'Faolain-Viking...
...Phelan, as even those who know no Irish may pronounce Sean OTaolain's Gaelic name, is a new star in Erin's sky. Known to only a few U. S. readers by a book of short stories (Midsummer Night Madness), he should soon, if A Nest of Simple Folk gets the audience it deserves, be visible throughout at least one hemisphere. This big novel of classic Irish types is set firmly in the oldfashioned, solid novel tradition, earmarked neither by the violent realism nor the violent mysticism of modern Ireland's civil war of letters...
...these things are not entirely unfair, then it is time for someone to begin calling knaves knaves. With a courage, born as much of sincerity as of invulnerbility, Dean Holmes has clouted a hornets nest with a very short handled stick. He has not much of a solution to offer, but he has sensed the difficulty, of the American feels a keen desire to perpetuate the kind of politician which is his bane; there is no better, no surer way to do it than to leave in that politician's sticky fingers his educational system. TERTIUS...
Here I am down at the Blue Eagle's nest and Critz! things sure look Bluege all right. Them New Yorkers are Terryfying the Moores here, yes-sir. The Senators got so hot under the collar today that they had to Peel off their coats to keep Kuehl. Manush! they sure are in 'Ott water. The Goose laid the golden egg and kept 'em going strong up to the sixth frame yesterday and it looked as if no one could Crowder off the field, but they sure are Myered now, Enough of this; this is series business. The score: Washington...
Unfortunately, when this straightforward burlesque starts the film is half over. Earlier and duller footage develops a love affair between Roulien, an Argentinian with a heavy boulevard manner, and wistful Gloria Stuart. Best of the numerous songs he sings about her is called "I'll Build a Nest." Funniest shot: Edna May Oliver, head of the Academy of Medical Science, gravely superintending the manu facture of a synthetic...