Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When Twentieth Century-Fox set out to make a $2,000,000 picture about Ferdinand de Lesseps last spring, Producer Darryl Zanuck entrusted the leading role to 23-year-old Tyrone Power, who barely looks his age. Instead of portraying him as a domestic hero, Suez not only failed to give Ferdinand de Lesseps any children but even failed to indicate that he ever married...
Surviving descendants of Ferdinand de Lesseps are naturally numerous. When one of them saw Suez in London last fortnight he called a family meeting in Paris to decide whether to sue Twentieth Century-Fox. Remembering that Princess Irina Youssoupov had received some $900,000 damages from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for having libeled her in Rasputin and the Empress, Twentieth Century-Fox officials hastily offered to show the picture to all the de Lesseps before it was publicly released in France...
...week in Paris, 28 de Lesseps, including Ferdinand's two surviving sons, Mathieu and Paul, attended the family preview. When it was over, despite the implied reflection on themselves and their parentage, the de Lesseps were not shocked enough to bring suit, suggested a few minor changes. Relieved, Twentieth Century-Fox officials agreed to make them...
Either a Christian revolution or one similar to the other twentieth century revolutions is inevitable according to Dr. Brunner. We must return to the way of Christ, in whom alone we recognize the unity of the truly divine and the truly human, he said...
...fact that the College Library has obtained an option for the purchase of it, is the polograph manuscript of a few hundred pages of the first version of "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," Joyce's first novel. the manuscript after being rejected by the twentieth publisher, was flung but the author into the fire, from which Mrs. Joyce, at the risk of burning her hands resumed...