Word: thees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the sandblasting was over. Dr. France tried to get to the rostrum himself. Protesting about "his rights," he was bundled off by policemen (like Nominee Throttlebottom in Of Thee I Sing). He was rescued by Hearst newshawks, allowed to pour out his grievances: "This is a colossal piece of political racketeering. I was going to put the name of Calvin Coolidge before the convention and it would have stampeded them. And Snell knew it. The nomination of this man Hoover is invalid...
Fortunately, there are signs that they cannot. "Of Thee I Sing" has effectively satirized, in Wintergreen's plank of Love, the attempt to convince by appeal to the emotions with neglect of the discriminating intelligence. The Consumer's Research Bulletin is finding wide approval. Mr. Batten has done a service by describing the plight of the advertising man of principle, who must compete with his less ethical collegue, and by placing the responsibility for our charlatan industrial life where it belongs, on the public. When, and only when individual consumers resolve not to buy any article whose advertisers insult...
...Merrily We Go to Hell, the fact that the hero is a journalist is incidental to the plot. The picture, adapted from Cleo Lucas' novel I, Jerry, Take Thee, Joan, is a study of domestic relations rather than of an occupation. As such it is by no means novel but it is well plotted, brilliantly acted. Sylvia Sidney has an extraordinary way of making audiences believe that she is ecstatically happy. She does it with a thoughtful, crooked smile and a small chuckle. Her pleasant state of mind is credible in this picture even when March, who has lost...
Nathaniel Lief and others; Haring & Del Bondio, producers) is not accompanied, as in the Of Thee I Sing lyric, with much hot-cha-cha. Instead, favoring the old Garrick Gaieties it runs to intellectual-looking chorus girls, bright antics, satire. Among its performers are cherubic Jerry Norris (an old Gaieties boy), Dorothy McNulty, Ann Seymour. Librettists and lyricists of the revue include Ogden Nash, Will Irwin, Frank Sullivan...
...Substitution of the word elements for the phrase bread & wine in the communion service. (Methodists use unfermented grape juice in communion.) C. Revision of the marriage service, deleting the phrase with all my worldly goods I thee endow...