Word: uplifts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wake Up and Live (Twentieth Century-Fox) preserves for posterity, at one & the same time, the amiable radio feud between Columnist Walter Winchell and Bandleader Ben Bernie, and the uplift message of the best-seller by Dorothea Brande, from which it takes its title. That this almost impudently daring tour de force turns out to be wholly successful is due to shrewd manipulations by Producer Kenneth MacGowan and to a narrative by Screenwriters Curtis Kenyon. Jack Yellen and Harry Tugend which for sheer ingenuity is possibly the season's high...
...years after the Crown Princess of Hyderabad's marriage, she returned to Nice to give birth to her chubby son the Nawab Mukaramja (see cut, p. 22) in the holy presence of the Caliph her father. Now back in Hyderabad, she has devoted herself to Indian female uplift movements and this week the Crown Princess marshaled the Hyderabad Girl Guides in the Jubilee Durbar. Unlike their husbands, who follow their father's example in dress, the Caliph's girls dress as Indian ladies do (see cut above...
...Saturday before election, they made their last big speeches, leaving only afterthoughts and last appeals for their election-eve broadcasts. In Madison Square Garden, flanked by his mother, wife and daughter, Franklin Roosevelt poured out his heartfelt bitterness at those who resented his efforts to uplift the U. S.: "We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace-business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering...
Last week the contradictory novelist-politician offered his 43rd volume in the form of a story of the self-help co-operative movement of California. It is a typical Sinclair novel. It has a good deal of the sunny, buoyant, irrepressible uplift spirit that has distinguished all his writing since he published The Jungle in 1906, the journalistic flare that keeps even his crusading potboilers rattling along at a good clip, a large cast of those singleminded, two-dimensional, easily-stirred individuals who seem to be more frequently encountered in Sinclair's fiction than anywhere else. The co-operative...
These ocean valleys are now more than 6000 feet below sea level in their greatest depths on Georges Bank. An uplift sufficient to bring these valleys above present sea level implies Alpine heights for the highlands of New England and New York and a high plateau for the rest of this region. A cliff about 7000 feet high must have extended along the New England coast in those days...