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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Viking). For the average Hollywood producer, Depression furnished a number of tedious gags, a few new turns for old plots. But it failed to invest the cinema with much New Deal sentiment, much sense of economic ferment. This fact has long rankled in the impatient mind of thick-lipped, shock-haired King Vidor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 8, 1934 | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

...Shock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 1, 1934 | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

...Chicago, after four years of idleness, Edward Tejak was given a job. At the shock he dropped dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 1, 1934 | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

...parted still good friends, he shock hands with an emphasis that shot your correspondents heart right into her lap. Ah, those men from the Lampoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tamara Breaks Into Crimson's Interview Staff By Accurate Portrayal of Bashful Lampooner | 9/28/1934 | See Source »

...bedrooms outside which a nightingale is singing. As Lady Jane expected, they take advantage of propinquity. And as she also expected, flighty Sybil is sorely disappointed that her spiritual affinity has carnal appetites. To send Sybil back to her husband with a clear conscience and a shut mouth, to shock Liza into decent behavior, Lady Jane then tells her girls that for years she has been the mistress of a man who has just been made Viceroy of India. That seems to settle everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 24, 1934 | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

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