Word: tom-tom
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...Ramparts We Watch," first full-length motion picture of the Luceditors, has been accused of beating the tom-tom loud and long for the war-dance of the interventionists. Actually the film's account of our entrance into World War I is remarkably accurate and unimpassioned, considering Yaleman Luce's personal and impassioned declaration of war on Chancellor Hitler. As a document of social history, the picture can be interpreted as a bugle call for War, Glory, and Unity or as the tragedy of a deluded and naive nation which sacrificed its life-blood to create the Treaty...
...Voice continued, for 45 minutes, intermittently sustained a sonorous tom-tom chant...
Last week somewhat somnolent business was jarred by the beat of a tom-tom. Publicity-wise, plane-cracking, bemonocled Negro Aviator Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian announced that he had joined Micheaux Picture Corp. as associate producer. Occasion was the world premiere of The Notorious Elinor Lee, first of a series of pictures which Julian says he will make with Micheaux Pictures...
...Tom-Tom is reported to have written Jim Farley a stream of job-begging letters lately, ending with one which told a story about a drunk who encountered the ghost of St. Paul. "Tell me," said the drunk, "did you ever get an answer to your letter to the Ephesians...
Last week Pope-baiting Tom-Tom got an answer from Pope-revering Frank Murphy, who, turning a good Christian cheek, told his press conference: "I want him to get an appropriate job, and I will take full responsibility...