Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Walking on Air (RKO) is a breezy comedy about the rich girl, Kit (Ann Sothern), who tries to force her father to let her marry a handsome bounder by pretending to be in love with a penniless college boy, Pete (Gene Raymond), whom she pays to masquerade as an objectionable French count. Sole variation on this time-honored theme is that Pete is also a crooner seeking a job in radio. This gives him opportunity to sing several pleasant new melodies (Cabin on the Hill-tot), Let's Make A Wish, My Heart Wants to Dance...
...American inventiveness, coupled with the strange and rich conditions which faced pioneers on the frontier," explains Lexicographer Craigie, accounts for the U. S. habit of twisting familiar English words into new meanings. Inventive John Adams first used appreciation to mean an increase in value. Inventive George Washington introduced administration in its U. S. political sense in his 1796 Farewell Address, first used average as a verb, first used the term back country. Since then back has been firmly imbedded as an adjective in such U. S. phrases as back taxes, back pay, back number, back talk, backhouse. Likewise inventive...
...RICH LAND, POOR LAND-Stuart Chase -Whittlesey House...
...discussed human problems as an economist, economic problems as an evangelist, political problems as an engineer, and philosophic problems as an irascible citizen who wants to know why something is not done. Last week Stuart Chase offered a typical volume to stand beside his The Tragedy of Waste. In Rich Land, Poor Land, he discusses for 347 pages the natural resources of the U. S., their exhaustion, misapplication, cost and preservation...
...Valley at least $10,000,000. Holding that confidence is the basic need, he gives brief, effective accounts of projects in Sweden, Russia, England. Readers may be dazzled by Stuart Chase's bold vision of a happier future for their country but they are more likely to close Rich Land, Poor Land, with an uneasy feeling that Author Chase has pulled some white rabbits out of his statistics, that there must be greater obstacles to his program than he admits...