Word: saga
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Westward the Women (MGM) is the showmanlike saga of an 1851 trek halfway across the U.S. by 140 women, recruited to marry the lovelorn settlers of a California valley. Rancher John McIntire signs up the prospective wives for his men, lets them pick their mates from a bulletin board full of daguerreotypes. Then hard-bitten Scout Robert Taylor rides herd on the ladies on the dangerous wagon-trail to the West...
Oliphant had been a nervous wreck since the day Chicago Attorney Abraham Teitelbaum told the subcommittee a saga of shakedown. The main point of Teitel-baum's story was that a "Washington clique," including Oliphant, was in the market for bribes from income-tax payers in trouble. Oliphant promptly quit his job as chief counsel of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, complaining that such a "fantastic" story should never have been permitted in public testimony. Such "vilification" was too much to take, he said...
...play centers on a crisis in the life of rising Manhattan Banker Charles Gray -on whether he will be made a vice president of the bank. A success story that is really a price-of-success story, it is the saga of a normally ambitious young executive's normal amount of climbing, conforming and currying favor. And the question is not just whether the goal is worth the scramble, but whether-even with the goal in sight-Charles mightn't be happier by not attaining...
This is the saga of Noel X. Yule...
...Hollywood press has been good to me," says Lana Turner. "They have always crucified me with a smile." In the December issue of Woman's Home Companion, Lana (telling it to Cameron Shipp) tries to set her life story straight. But the saga still seems almost as painful as crucifixion by the press...