Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Uruguay's Foreign Minister, José Espalier, a fluent orator who was trained for the law but never practiced it, who at 70 looks like anything but the rich man that he is. His hat is always crushed, due to his habit of carrying it under his left arm, and over his wing collar his cheeks are always bristly since he uses a barber's clippers instead of a razor...
...picture has enough vitality to throw new life into a lot of matter otherwise dead. Joan Crawford, for example, is the familiar overly-rich heiress who doesn't know what to do with herself and her money, until she meets a poor man. That person in this case is Clark Gable, and he is a reporter, which class doesn't learn his identity until he and she have stolen a airplane, scared about a million people in taking off, crashed the plane, found a spy map in it, dressed up like French peasants, spent a night in Fontaineblean Palace with...
...spoiled for a long time the chances of another author writing a successful book on old York State. Mr. Carmer should have confined himself to a more limited space or done more thorough and more accurate work. As it is, he passes a good many localities rich with the treasure of romance; he disposes of the great Adirondacks with nothing more than an account of some winter lumbering activities, points out that cock-fighting can still be found in Central New York near Hamilton (as in a great many other places in York State), passes on a few old stories...
...talismans of William Shakespeare and Walter Huston will rightly lure Harvard men by the drove, no matter what a critic may say. And indeed no sane critic could protest, the entertainment is as rich and abundant as the fondest playgoer can conceivably expect...