Word: slave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modern education, and the Rotary wheel, there is no other social contrivance in the United States so wide in scope as the present system of Daylight Saving. Twice a year by the simple motion of turning a pair of pointers on a numbered surface, the twentieth-century wage-slave achieves his moment of supreme triumph: he discovers that the clock was made for him, not he for the clock. This Thought should be expanded by a Small Group of Serious Thinkers somewhere, whose shoulders are heavily burdened by the destiny of the Universe...
...That both Warner and Jolson know Jolson's acting limitations is evidenced by two sequences. The first is a flashback to post Civil war days in which Jolson as Gus's grandfather captures a villainous Southern fire-eater and, ahorse, rescues his beauteous young mistress, successfully burlesquing the ancient slave-master tradition. The second is the fade-out?the cast out of character formally grouped on a painted stage with orchestra below and Jolson with his face washed white expressing the wish that his cinema audience enjoyed themselves as much in sitting through the picture as he did in making...
...Last week the company was accused of planning to use slave labor on its construction. Gano Dunn, corporation president, denied such intention, declared: "The Emperor is radically opposed to slave labor...
...Americans are not slaves of their machines ! . . . Man can never become the slave of a machine. . . . Some people are further developed from the technical point of view than others, that...
...visited an old southern city (his mother, Martha Bulloch, came from a fine old Georgia family) where an ambitious hostess contrary to the orders of the reception committee, persuaded him to enter her home on the pretext that he would thereby give profound pleasure to an old family slave on the brink of death. The President, all innocent of the trick, was her brief guest, took a cup of tea from an ancient Negro servant. Claiming that the family of the President's hostess had owned no slaves, that she herself had hired the old negro for this occasion...