Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tailspin (Twentieth Century-Fox). In its protracted series of aviation pictures, the cinema has shown men fliers at home and abroad, over sea and land, dead and alive. It has rarely, however, shown women fliers. Tailspin rectifies this neglect with a band of young women aviators (Alice Faye, Constance Bennett, Joan Davis, Nancy Kelly) engaged in transcontinental races, parachute jumps, spectacular crashes and the amatory adventures which, in the cinema, naturally accompany all such hazardous undertakings...
...Disney's triumphs are what I call twentieth-century folk art," Feild told an enthusiastic audience. "His cartoons present perhaps the only universal art form in history. My efforts can only be for the greater enjoyment of his work." Feild spent much of last summer in Hollywood, California, studying the new science in talking pictures fostered by Disney...
...June, but Mr. Buttress, that's John's father, has to go back to Harvard for his twenty-fifth reunion then. The next date was the thirteenth, but John has to be at Harvard for his annual club dinner. By this time Cynthia was really impatient, so the twentieth was decided upon. Once more procrastination struck, as Dicky, that's John's brother, found he couldn't get down that day because he had to take an entrance exam for Harvard. Cynthia and her mother promptly slated the wedding for the twenty-seventh. John threw a fit, because it seems...
...build a church, Mr. Noe's flock planned to meet wherever they could hire or borrow a hall. In his first sermon, preached in a synagogue, Rector Noe promised "the greatest crusade for Christ ever known." Last Sunday, in the Nineteenth Century Club, he preached on "The Twentieth Century Church...
Feild spent much of last summer in Hollywood studying Disney's work, which he described last fall as "perhaps the only universal art form in history; it is what I like to call twentieth century folk art. Using science unselfconsciously, it embodies the total achievement of the human race to date and puts true movement and life into...