Word: protagonist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rabbits, always hunted, never hunters, life is a battle to keep the spirits up. Protagonist Hops often wonders where is the sport...
...Guaranteed Deaths." On the Verification of Deaths Bill there was stirring debate. "Messieurs we must spare Frenchmen the terrible agony of burial by mistake!," cried one protagonist. "What happened to the Abbe Donnat? On the day of his ordination he fell into a state of complete lethargy and was pronounced dead. Had he been buried at once what a great, what an irreparable loss to France...
...Pathé) depends entirely upon a widespread conviction, the nurturing of which the motion picture industry appears to regard as its most sacred duty, that circus sawdust is a powder of romance. Here a trapeze artist in a traveling circus becomes united, after vicissitudes and theme songs, with the protagonist in a medicine show. A distinguished cast including Helen Twelvetrees, Chester Conklin, Ben Turpin and Stepin Fetchit are involved in the itinerant sentimentalities. The villain is the ringmaster and has a mustachio...
...excited, Wets everywhere were. They hailed the Ambassador-nominee as their protagonist, repeated that he is "presidential timber." Nevertheless many a Dry felt that Mr. Morrow's appeal was through his personality, agreed with Funnyman Will Rogers that "he could have run as a Bolshevik...
Henry Ford, Prohibition's prime industrial protagonist, last week found himself required to explain, reconcile and justify his opinion that the 18th Amendment is "the greatest force for the comfort and prosperity of the U. S." (TIME, March...