Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second feature, "Man Hunt," with William Gargan and Marguerite Churchill, is amusing enough, plays new variations on the theme of the small-town reporter and the not-too-inhuman gangster. The bill is more than satisfactory for that reading period pressure on the head. Sharp eyes may notice that the bank set in the first film serves as the sherifi's office in the second...
...impenetrable unfriendliness of the northern waters. And when the great, bashful sailor does not return, his widow-bride is shown to be weeping all the time, instead of somehow conveying, as she does in the book, the idea of an endless and agonized waiting. An incident of this period, perhaps the most poignant of all, in which Gaud leaps from bed in the midst of a rainy night, in answer to a knock, only to find that it is not her lover Yann, is entirely omitted from the film...
...first reading period is scheduled to last from January 4 to January 20 while there will be 23 days for the final reading period. Other holidays will be on Columbus Day, Thanksgiving, Washington's Birthday, Patriot's Day, and Memorial...
...grand wise-cracks to tickle the ears of his Republican bosses with when he becomes a brass-hat in the G.O.P. propaganda offices in Washington this summer. Best: "...Since God must be somewhere behind the New Deal, it's his way of avenging the South for the 'Reconstruction' period". In addition: "...Good sports in the Republican ranks say it's got to be taken; it's just retribution for Warren Harding...
...nearly a year, U. S. Business had apparently decided to make a thoroughgoing reappraisal of the business outlook. Trade statistics were at Recovery highs. Corporate earnings for the March quarter were impressive, the first 108 companies to report showing a 43.5% average increase in profits over the same period last year. But here & there first quarter results failed to justify the hopes expressed in high prices for their stocks. And with the normal spring rise in business approaching a peak, both businessmen and speculators were, as usual, concerned with neither past nor present but with the future...