Word: smalltowner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Playwright Sherwood's interpretation is the child of the hour. Psychologically his Lincoln, beautifully played by Canadian-born Actor Raymond Massey, is familiar enough: a salty, sinewy smalltown fellow* cursed with a submerged streak of loneliness and bitterness, plagued by an unsympathetic wife and haunted by an unshakable sense of doom. But Sherwood's chief interest in Lincoln is spiritual, not psychological: it consists of vividly, though not altogether convincingly, tracing Lincoln's growth from an indolent, unambitious "artful dodger" who wanted to be left alone, to a suddenly aroused and embattled champion of human rights...
Largest music-boosting organization in the world is the National Federation ot Music Clubs. Its 400,000 women members range from smalltown Thursday Afternoon Choral clubwomen to sponsors of Metropolitan symphony and opera seasons...
Four Daughters is a family vehicle as slick and streamlined as a sedan just off the assembly line, as capacious as a 1925 touring car, as comfortably upholstered as a buggy. It concerns itself with the lives of four musical smalltown sisters, the Lemps, three of whom are Lola, Priscilla and Rosemary Lane. Gale Page plays the fourth. What the Lemp girls want and what they get are two different things...
...Smalltown lawyer (Versailles, 1924-29), State Senate (1929-31), Lieutenant Governor (1931-35), Governor (1935-39) after beating Republican King Swope* by 96,000 votes...
...basic appeal is brutually direct. To smalltown bigwigs partial to Barkley he will say straight out, "By God, Jim, you've got to vote for me or I'll make it tough...