Word: roam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under Western Stars (Republic) introduces a new singing cowboy, compact, blue-eyed, diffident Roy Rogers (real name: Leonard Slye). What makes his debut notable is that the song he sings is of social significance. On the sere cinema range ridden by twangy Roy Rogers no grazing buffalo roam. Most of the time the Western stars are blotted out by great, rolling clouds of dust. In the discouraging words of Dust, Cowboy Rogers laments...
...proud of the roscopoundia lichen as he is of his knowledge of Freemasonry and Civil War military history. Junketing in Europe last week, Roving Professor Pound in September will welcome as his successor in the job he has held for 21 years his onetime student, SECommissioner James McCauley Landis, roam Harvard to his mind's content...
...book, and it is described with the most revealing tenderness flavored with frequent spurts of recognition of one's own childhood. The Sunday in November which is recorded hour by hour for us as the events slowly unreel is typical of any rainy Sunday when children are allowed to roam within the walls of the house. Bunny, who hated to be forced out of doors just because the sun was out, is allowed his own thoughts and amusements. Dinner table conversations of parents which pass beyond the comprehension of the younger generation, indignation and tears which result from the tantalizing...
There is a sensuousness about the picture which lends it charm. The Swiss are a people of simple pleasures; they love their mountains and their fastivals. Fat cattle roam the valleys, and goats clamber on the rocks. But they are also a people divided by racial hates. From these two contrasts the plot develops, in the conflict between two hostile French and German villages. A dog is killed, and a woman kidnapped in retaliation. The picture ends with one of the villages in flames, and the two levers in their midst...
Sportsman son of a railroading father, Averell Harriman noted that 8,000 U. S. skiers went to Austria alone last year. He noted the Banff and Lake Louise developments of Canadian Pacific. So he invited Count Felix Schaffgotsch, a fellow sportsman from Austria, to roam the West until he found-on the U. P.-a likely spot for skiing...