Word: scene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Followed by 40 automobiles, the bus sped down the highway toward Duck Hill. Two miles from the scene of last December's murder, 500 country folk, including women and children, waited expectantly in a patch of pinewood. When the motorcade from Winona arrived, the mob closed in to watch as the terrified Negroes were dragged from the bus. People in the back rows could hear heavy chains clink as the two blackamoors were made fast to trees...
Immediately after the jump, the bridge and both banks of the river became crowded. A fire engine, with pulmotor apparatus was summoned to the scene. After 20 minutes of grappling of two policemen in a rowboat the body was recovered...
Hitch Your Wagon's first scene exhibits Rex Duncan (George Curzon), a onetime stage idol who has gone somewhat to pot in Hollywood, having the jitters in a Manhattan sanatorium where his agent (Joseph Sweeney) has placed him because of alcoholic excesses. A shapely young admirer comes in bringing a gift of noodle soup. She turns out to be one Camille Schwartz (Dennie Moore), encouraged to visit Duncan by a stage-struck mother. The actor is charmed by Camille's naive allusions to her simple, bourgeois life, even more fascinated when she deprecates his film appearances but admires...
...scene seems to Waldo Frank less like a metropolitan park than a jungle. Nevertheless he comports himself with oratorical earnestness, harangues the jungly prowlers as if they were gaping democrats. His latest book, a collection of speeches and articles covering the last ten years, ranges from the autobiographical to the abstract, from the satiric to the scriptural. Readers found the scriptural passages skippable but the satiric often well-seasoned, salty...
...been adjuring, adverting, advising his countrymen to discover in their fragmentary selves a Sense of the Whole. Disregarded by the majority of Americans as a left-wing liberal with a boringly Messianic style, Waldo Frank at 47 is at least as much a part of the U. S. scene as the Hyde Park orators are of London's. Unlike most liberals he suffered a broken crown for his beliefs (in 1932 when he led a relief committee into troublous Bell County, Ky.). Last September he was jailed in Terre Haute because he was in Communist Candidate Earl Browder...