Word: rising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most fact-packed era in U. S. history. Miss Page, who once wanted to be a history professor, gets all the facts in-Indian trouble, tax trouble, Patrick Henry's rebel-rousing, the Declaration, Trenton, Saratoga, Lafayette off Rhode Island, the Constitution and how it grew, the rise of the Republicans (later called Democrats), everything from A to the XYZ affair-but so sweetly does she coat her historical pill that it might well be prescribed for students who are sick of textbooks...
...often that Hollywood can put as many as five interesting people together in a single movie. This is the accomplishment of "The Shining Hour," now at the University, and even better, these interesting characters rise above the limitations of a trite triangle plot and become real, credible characters. They are Joan Crawford, nightclub dancer, who marries Melvyn Douglas, a member of the rich, aristocratic family of Lindens. Robert Young, in the process of trying to prevent the marriage, falls in love with Miss Crawford himself, much to the distress of his wife, Margaret Sullavan, and his sister, Fay Bainter. Outstanding...
...life by seeing Miss O'Connell make a tremendous hit with everybody. No one can be unaffected by the charm and beauty with which she sings. Add the fact that the lady is a genuinely good looking vocalist, and the sum equals another factor in Dorsey's rise...
Great men are of two different kinds: those whose tremendous genius sweeps them through the world and those who rise to equal heights through the perfect fusion of more ordinary talents. Washington was the second kind, and his legend suffers in consequence; for we demand spectacular superlatives today before we call a man a giant. Yet Washington was a giant; the perfect harmony and balance of his character may go unheralded today, but it is as important now as it was one hundred and fifty years...
Edgar Ansel Mowrer is former head of the Foreign Press Association in Berlin, winner of a 1933 Pulitzer Prize for his despatches on the rise of Hitler, and author of Germany Puts the Clock Back-the book that got him kicked out of Germany. Last year he spent several months in Central and North China, interviewed foreigners, Chinese, the "Amazing Soong Family," watched a Japanese bombing massacre with U. S.-made planes, saw the guerrillas in action behind the Japanese lines...