Word: rebounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rebound (RKO-Pathé). Playwright Philip Barry (in Paris Bound and Holi day) gave drawing-room comedy a new fillip by introducing into the speeches of his well-bred characters a form of "cuckoo humor"-causing them, in moments of emotional stress, to go into absurd monologs, parodying the attitudes and technique of serious fiction. Because Barry's characters were rich and well educated, it came to be believed that such gaiety was the height of sophistication. Author Donald Ogden Stewart is an old hand at this type of humor and he employed it in his play Rebound. Less...
...fortnight he harped again. He sent a 6,000-word message to all National Committee members asking for personal "recommendations and reactions." He said he wanted to clarify ideas for the party's 1932 platform. He called for a tariff of "fair trade," for a farm relief "that will rebound to the benefit of the whole country." He discussed economic competition in terms of tooth paste, shaving cream, automobiles, radios. He demanded a platform "brief?like the Declaration of Independence." But everyone knew, or acted as though, he was really talking only about Prohibition...
...cruised in preparation for its flight to Panama for the Navy war games. As new equipment the Los Angeles carried a radio-echo-log, a finely adjusted altimeter which indicates the height of the craft by the time required for a radio signal to reach the ground and rebound to a receiving device...
...evened the score after a scrimmage in front of the Red and Blue net. Before the end of the period, W. D. Vogel ocC. dribbled down the field and counted the second of Harvard's three goals during the second quarter. He again tallied by heading in a rebound off the crossbar...
...shows which Chicagoans will pay to see. But the Institute's play-choosing committee will not Broadwayize the Goodman repertoire below the level of New York's Theatre Guild. Titles being considered for next year: Hedda Gabler, The Would Be Gentleman, Anna Christie, The Goat Song, Milestones, Rebound, The Firebrand...