Word: strivings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United States to attempt to throw pillows of diplomatic intrigue in the path of the Japanese Frankenstein. This does not mean that Nipponese aggression is thereby condoned. But it is far less expensive and far more prudent for the United States to mind its own business and strive to take advantage of the impending Japanese agression in the light of American interests...
...Live Tonight," with Tullio Carminati and Lilian Harvey, is one of those cinemas which strive to be charming. Diffused lighting, yachts, Monte Carlo, the Riviera in the moonlight, and a champagne supper for two--all these ingredients achieve a sort of Midsummer Nights Dream atmosphere. Carminati, rich and cynical, complains that love is an ephemeral flower, but that, of course, is before he meets Miss Harvey. Also on the program is a very interesting installment of the "March of Time," including a Russian chapter of unusual brilliance...
...shall all be able to live in the calm happiness of brotherhood. Love, not only of mother for quintuplets, not only of vaudeville entrepreneurs for packed houses, but love of neighbor for neighbor, man for man, will lead us to that glorious millenium for which all thinking men strive. Such proposals are but stumbling blocks in the path to progress, and the sooner they can be removed from the international scene the sooner mankind will be happy...
...late as two months ago the Republican Presidential nomination in 1936 was generally regarded as an empty honor for which no sane man would seriously strive. Since then, however, has come a distinct change of opinion among G. O. Partisans. President Roosevelt might be unbeatable by himself but, if a third party of disgruntled Leftwingers under Senator Long or someone like him should enter the field, the Republican nominee might have a bare chance to slip through to success. Some such idea was definitely in the air last week as Republicans began to stir out of their long lethargy...
Private Worlds (Paramount). Said Ernst Lubitsch, onetime director and now Paramount's new production chief, last fortnight: "Eight hundred motion pictures are produced in Hollywood each year. That means that some one must strive to contrive to have the boy meet the girl in a different way than 799 others have related it. Reduced to elementals, that is our problem." If it did nothing else, Private Worlds would be notable for the solution which it offers to the perplexity which caused Producer Lubitsch to forget his grammar. The boy and the girl meet in an insane asylum where...