Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dramatic natural. Since 1895 The Prisoner of Zenda has swashbuckled over the stages of the English-speaking world. In 1922 Rex Ingram produced a silent cinema version. Last week Producer David Selznick gave this colorful hardy perennial the finest treatment it has ever had. Slicked up by Screenwriters Wells Root and John L. Balderston, well-cast, well-acted and beautifully staged, The Prisoner of Zenda will hardly hearten those who want Hollywood to skate out where the ice is thinner (see p. 33) but will certainly give cinemaddicts a rare good show for their money...
...killing Smith the Indians adopted him into their tribe, took him 300 miles into the Ohio wilderness. In the five years that elapsed before he made his escape he acquired an unbeatable knowledge of Indian ways, a lasting hatred for the arms and liquor traffic that lay at the root of the bloody feud between Indians and whites...
Last week a Washington, D. C. woman died of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, a disease which until recently was found only in the remote Bitter Root Valley of Montana and the Snake River Valley of Idaho, Oregon and Washington. The woman's skin was dotted with typical pinpoint hemorrhages, her lungs and kidneys congested, spleen enlarged, liver degenerated, genitalia hemorrhagic. Two other people in the vicinity have died with the same symptoms since June 1, and the panicky Capital immediately implored district and public health officials for advice on how to avoid a devastating disease which...
Huffed Sculptor Epstein: "The root of the matter is that they don't like the statues. I have not been consulted...
...walls is as promising a training for work and play in the American civilization as can be found. Especially at times of shifting values, when many things which a few years ago looked safe for generations are crumbling to the ground, and when new ideals and ideologies are taking root in masses of people it is valuable to have the experience in learning to think and to meet new problems which, more than any other one thing, four years at Harvard are able to give. For although at the end of undergraduate years a student may feel more obliged...