Word: raucousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speaks careful English and falls in love with a socialite. Smooth direction by Richard Thorpe and a tightly integrated narrative, for which major credit goes to Screenwriter George Bruce, weld these and the rest of the paraphernalia of all fight films-bigshot gamblers, fight fixers, snarling reporters-into racy, raucous entertainment, as insignificant and as lively as tomorrow's sports page. Best characterization: Frank Morgan as the hero's whiskey-soaked, lazy, conniving father, a onetime impresario of trained seals, who launches his son's ring career in order to avoid the indignity of going to work...
...Korsakov (both previously considered horrible examples of bourgeois sentimentality), got themselves a new approved list of less modernistic composers. First to shine among the new group was young Ivan Dzerzhinsky, whose melodious, folk-song-inspired opera And Quiet Flows the Don was contrasted favorably with that "muddle of sound, raucous cacophony and lascivious naturalism," Lady Macbeth. Most talented of the new group was shy, sandy-haired, 24-year-old Tykon Krennikov, whose deep, contemplative First Symphony was hailed by critics at its Manhattan première last year as one of the finest contemporary works of its kind. Also basking...
...Broadcast of 1938 (Paramount) is the annual Paramount song & dance, staged this year on a fancily streamlined ocean liner with raucous, red-nosed W. C. Fields giving the orders. Shipshape when Great Man Fields is on deck, it lists badly whenever he goes below...
Seven years ago, in Washington's Pan American Union, diplomats blushed almost as red as the Union's macaw, Lorito, when that platitude-hating bird garnished a radio speech by President Herbert Hoover with a raucous Bronx cheer. Recently Lorito's obscene outcries (in Spanish & Portuguese) were silenced forever when he was done to death by David, the Union's gaudy green parrot. Last week, the parrot-murderer, possessed of Lorito's testy spirit, interrupted Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who was giving a speech to the Union (on Davis Cup drawings), with a Bronx...
...milled around a rectangular tanbark enclosure on Manhattan's Squadron A Armory, squinting knowingly as 226 harness horses were trotted or paced, one by one, up & down the narrow track. Walking sticks flashed in the air as bids were raised again & again and the raucous-voiced auctioneer pounded his gavel, announced the buyers. Thus was sold $206,000 worth of U. S. horseflesh at the 43rd annual Old Glory Sale, capping the most successful year in the history of U. S. harness racing...