Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...several instances, from two to four policemen are seen beating one man. One strikes him horizontally across the face, using his club as he would a baseball bat. Another crashes it down on top of his head, and still another is whipping him across the back. . . . In one such scene, directly in the foreground, a policeman gives the fallen man a final smash on the head before moving on to the next...
...reporters could be counted on the fingers of one hand. Also the story was popping in too many places for any paper to cover it with one man. First move was to handle it like the flood, rush an ace reporter (but not necessarily a Labor specialist) to the scene of greatest violence, rely on the press associations for complete coverage, and tell Washington correspondents to get some quotes from John L. Lewis, William Green, and Government sources. Notable in the year's early reporting of Labor were the dispatches of Paul Gallico, former sports editor, who returned...
...with a canny eye for prestige, publicity, and good hard cash. . . . College trustees measure men by reputation rather than by real achievement. . . . One wonders what the effect would be on those bright young boys in the senior class at Mammoth if they fully understood the significance of the Commencement scene this month, as they watch their alma mater shoveling out honorary degrees to the face-cards of business and professional life...
...linking the slaves' fetters to the anchor chain and dropping anchor. In a free-for-all, Skipper Lovett freed most of the blackbirds, shot Thompson in the belly. Put on trial for slaving, Lovett admitted his guilt. Nancy's testimony, in the picture's best dramatic scene, saves his life...
When Anatole France (Jacques-Anatole-François Thibault) died in 1924, the younger generation of French writers swarmed to the scene with strong antiseptic criticism intended to fumigate the world of his reputation as the equal of Montaigne, Rabelais, Renan, Voltaire. Most contemporary writing about him has reflected this opinion. With the possible exception of Proust the most-written-about French writer of the last century, Anatole France has not yet been the subject of a definitive English biography. Why biographers have been scared away may be surmised by reading Author Dargan's volume, a 729-pager which...