Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...echoing Pennsylvania Station, some 2,000 young Socialists, mostly college students, massed one morning last week to welcome home their political hero. Their placards and banners joggled up & down as they lustily sang the "Internationale." When they spied a tall, handsome, white-haired man coming from his train, they rushed forward and engulfed him with their enthusiasm. It was Norman Mattoon Thomas, Socialist nominee for President, back from a five-week transcontinental campaign tour. Nominee Thomas had traveled 10,000 miles through 38 States, made 150 speeches. His campaign slogan: "Repeal Unemployment." His remedy: a $10,000,000,000 bond...
...Between his triumph at Paris last week and his expected appearance at Geneva this week, Premier Herriot sandwiched one of the quickest good-will trips on record. As one Socialist & Republican to another, he dashed down to Madrid to felicitate the new Socialist & Republican Government of Spain. When his train stopped at San Sebastian, eleven miles inside the Spanish frontier, Premier Herriot shouted at the top of his voice: "Long live the Spanish Republic...
...expect anyone to get a true picture of any social problem but high tables in the stultifying atmosphere of Harvard self-approval. The average Harvard man is usually a disciple of the mysterious metaphysics of the department of Government, or else he is whooping it up in the train of some attractive tub-thumper like Mencken. Such muddleheadedness, naturally derived from their betters, leads the students to support Hoover because it is the thing to do, or to support Roosevelt because he sounds so nice and liberal, even though they know you can't prove it. Those men who might...
...seems to have been thrown together in rather short order and one suspects the producers of raiding the morgue freely for shots from Chevalier's earlier films, there are several good scenes; for instance the picture of Paris awakening, of the princess standing on the tracks to stop a train, and of Maurice breaking up the duke's hunt by entertaining the stag at luncheon...
Christine Galvosier, 19, lives in a household which her father (toothy, droll A. E. Matthews) describes with cheerful resignation as "a railroad station, with everyone waiting for a different train.'' Her mother (Alice Brady, released into comedy after funereal Mourning becomes Electra) is a charming flibbertigibbet who seldom sees her rascally son or impatiently virginal daughter. Result: Daughter Christine is seduced, impregnated by a youthful Egyptian. Enter tragedy...