Word: paean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instead of attempting a journalistic study of bus-travel, regularly punctuated by comic touches, Director Frank Capra and Robert Riskin who adapted Samuel Hopkins Adams' story, fused the two. When Gable and Colbert hail a Ford for a lift the driver sings them a tuneless paean on the pleasures of hitchhiking. When they stop for gas, he tries to drive off with their battered suitcase. The quick flow of comic incident through It Happened One Night reaches its fantastic conclusion in a wedding at which the groom arrives in an autogyro while the bride runs away...
Fannie Hurst would have choired the paean with more gusto. Horatio Alger would have awarded his hero a more thoroughgoing financial success. But not even Zenith's Chamber of Commerce could have done a more wholehearted job of boosting than this onetime Babbitt-baiter has done...
Editor Van Coevering does not overburden his magazine with preaching. Most of it is filled with conversational stories about Michigan fields & streams, articles on sports and Nature-lore. Michigan's foremost Nature-lover and onetime Governor, Chase Salmon Osborn, contributes a lyrical paean to Spring. First issue of 40,000 sold out 95%, even in hard-pressed Detroit...
From the world at large messages of sympathy and relief flooded in upon President-elect Roosevelt. To a man, his country rose to applaud his cool courage in the face of Death. All minor political discords were hushed in the paean of popular rejoicing at his escape. The Miami episode added one more asset to the large store Franklin Roosevelt already has to take into the White House: he is a martyr President at the start of his term...
...better look for it in the dictionary, Author Lewis is a passionate believer in the reality of dictionary words. Ann Vickers, his first book since he won the Nobel Prize, is only incidentally an attack on U. S. politics, society, penology. Fundamentally it is a defiant, 362-page paean in praise of Womanhood and Crusades...