Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unwrapped a new cellophane-covered candidate for the gallery of immortal movies, complete with Welsh village and all. As often, before, John Ford is the responsible director. For as far back as Hollywood can remember, he has produced nothing but A-1 pictures, and "How Green Was My Valley" is no exception to this cinematic rule. If anything, it tops any picture he has ever made...
...plot centers around a Welsh coal mining family which revels in the beauty of its green valley. But in time, the slag and soot cover all that was green-in both nature and the miners. As the slag piles increase, the Morgan family gets bigger and poorer, their daughter becomes eligible, their sons turn radical, and the bosses start cutting the wages. This is the backdrop for the hour and a half of dramatic entertainment that follows...
...time, all the Morgan sons except Hugh leave for all parts of the globe, where they hope to get a decent wage. From then on, the suffering of the miners grows, the wages go lower still, blackness seems to come over the whole valley, and finally the mine blows up, killing Mr. Morgan, father of the family. The last two minutes are a reverie recalling what the valley looked like before the "city folk took over...
...battle, but we have to redirect the thinking of the American people onto the road from which it strayed after the first world war. This does not mean that we must overload them with detailed plans for a reconstructed League of Nations, a federation of the Danube Valley, a partitioned Germany, or any such specific and controversial blueprint. Let the wise men squabble over that...
Died. George Washington Stephens, 75, Commissioner of the Saar Valley (1926-27); after a year's illness; in Los Angeles...