Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which captures the spirit of an intimate comedy, is a welcome relief from the colossal, and stupendously boring, dance spectacles. When Frod Astaire and Ginger Rogers are not delighting the eye by their dancing, Eric Blore and Everett Horton as butler and master tickle the risibilities with fast-paced dialogue. Helen Broderick, of "Band Wagon" fame, completes the triumvirate of finished comedians. The only bone the reviewer has to pick with the director concerning the whole production is that Helen Broderick was given such a relatively minor role...
...reviled and vilified Franklin Roosevelt more than Huey Pierce Long. Nevertheless when the President heard that his bitter enemy had been shot in Baton Rouge (see p. 15), he publicly declared: ''I deeply regret the attempt made upon the life of Senator Long of Louisiana. The spirit of violence is unAmerican...
...also disregard those who are actuated by a spirit of political partisanship or by a willingness to gain or retain personal profit at the expense of, and detriment to, their neighbors...
...Italo-Ethiopian dispute is not a thing we can regard as just another incident. There is a new spirit abroad in the world today. I believe that the world is entering a long, and if we must judge from what has gone before, one of the bloodiest and cruelest periods it has ever known...
...Horse Barn. But last week many a toe got stepped on while its owner ogled a filly named Jade Rhodora in that brawling half-moon of tents pitched east of the race track. Strip-Dancer Rhodora, who overnight became Des Moines' Sally Rand, took it all in the right spirit, announcing: "I wouldn't do a strip dance in a night club. ... I wouldn't do it at a stag affair either. This is different. The people are really good folks. They don't get to see much of this sort of thing and they get a thrill...