Word: swept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...historic military mancuvers, none have been so daring as this, Hannibal swept through the Alps, Schlieffen goose-stepped his Prussians around Belgium, but only Boyer is seeking his objective through the Heart. Unlike Russia's overtures to Finland, the movie-star has already won the confidence of his feminine audience. They will cling to every word as he pictures the poilu answering the call of duty just as Boyer placed his marital vows before Irene Dunne (in "When Tomorrow Comes"). They will soon become convinced that a place in the trenches is almost as glorious as a night of Boyer...
Looking back on those days, it is hard to believe how the storm gathered force, how a quiet country slowly swept on towards hatred and war. The beginnings were small, and the end so terrible. But the beginnings added up. Then as now, the men at the top of the hierarchy, the college presidents and the ministers raised the war-cry. The change from indifference to raging militarism was the work of a few months...
...into the gloom and common sense of the thirties. The show belongs to Jimmy Cagney, who is really in his medium as the doughboy-boot-legger-bum. Out of what might be considered "just another toughie role" by many other actors Cagney has made a perfectly understandable human being swept up in a crazy era and thrown down again with a thud when that era comes to a close. Gladys George, as a considerably washed-behind-the-ears Texas Guinan, follows in Cagney's wake and gives him all the acting support he could...
Maurice Duplessis' Union Nationals swept to power in 1936, after 39 years of Liberal rule in Quebec, on the strength of some high-sounding oratory against trusts and political graft. But he found promises when out of office easier to make than laws when in. He dropped trust-busting for labor-baiting, and the law for which he is best known is his Padlock Law, allowing him to shut any building merely suspected of harboring "Communists," which term he defined broadly. He made himself ridiculous by cutting his own salary, then restoring the cut; by decreeing French...
...years) Hog Island cargo ships to the Brazil Government. For Brazil it was a good deal. It stepped up her Government-owned Lloyd Brasileiro Line fleet to 62 ships, gave her urgently needed bottoms for carrying her coffee and raw materials overseas now that war has swept most belligerents' ships from the seas...