Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...almost the virulence which the man himself would have employed in scorching a commercial enemy. Bonfils and his "Denver Post" have been held up in magazines and less full-blooded papers as the dual climax of bawdy journalism; they have been ridiculed as cranks and denounced as blackmailers their saga has been amplified and coloured even beyond its own rich Western blood-hue. And I refer to the Post anthropomorphically with reason; Bonfils dubbed it "The Big Brother," and such it remains...
...said, further, that one can find little fault with Mr. Starrett's mode of selection. As far as is possible within 200 pages, he has touched upon all the interesting aspects of the Holmes saga. Illustrators, parodists, actors, imitators,--all come under his facile pen. One must conclude that, if Mr. Starrett has been a little too willing to be naive, his naivete has at least the merit of being understood; and that for the rest, his biography is vivacious and readable...
...country drifts into its fourth year of depression, the public has taken seriously to wearing sackcloth and ashes. The current movies at the University Theatre indicate that this flagellation has become quite strong. In "The Power and the Glory" (showing today) we have the traditional American saga of the lowly working man rising from the ranks by diligence and effort to become President not only of one railroad but of many railroads. This has always been desirable, glorious, the aim of all true Americans. Yet in the movie it is analyzed closely to show that it is vicious, wicked...
There are many more details in the saga of Mrs. Bolivar E. Kemp, all faithfully reported by the newspapers, all either ignored editorially or considered as just so many more gems in Senator Long's crown of folly. Senator Long seized power in Louisiana by a coup of this same kind, he has retained it by a series of them, but all of this is treated, not as a sign of the times, but as an individual eruption unrelated to the larger questions of the forum. Why is Long in Louisiana less of a political phenomenon than Mussolini in Italy...
From the newsprints of Chicago comes a mellow little saga regarding the American Legion Convention held there last week. In the lobby of the Palmer House, one of the nation's most placid and unruffled hostelries, a number of legionnaires were disporting drunkenly in their underclothing when some veteran wag possessed himself of a knife and cut loose. Even Chicago the unshockable found this rather heavy footed, and were it not that the Legion constituted a sacrosanct mine of large emotions and useful votes, the reformers would certainly have reached for their hatchets and carved its scalp...