Word: wasteland
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...lately harassed wanderer through the academic wasteland of examinations who has a mind for relaxation of intellect and entertainment of the eye and ear, Marilyn Miller in "Sunny" presents great attractions while "Castles in the Air" runs a close second. For those with a desire for a compound of thrills and laughs "The Ghost Train" was especially written...
...figure and I regret that the reference was not inscribed as I should like o read the entire look. But can there be any need for an asks where there is no desert? Love say no and I for one am entirely unawake that the Yank, is such a wasteland of inequity...
...century the preposterous "monkey trial" at Dayton, Tenn. Following no plot, pointing no moral, it is simply a contemporary pageant of ignorance masquerading as "smartness," bigotry as uprightness, mob violence as morality, pleasure as the unpardonable sin, among isolated people whose surroundings seem to have become a spiritual wasteland, stunting and evaporating in them all but their physical vigor, malicious wit and crudest humanities. Scores of characters crowd the stage, each closely observed in real life's unmistakable habiliments, from the principals clear down to Schallburger, the labor organizer, and Sim Pratt, slick soda-jerker. There are smashing scenes...
...Emperor opened a relief subscription list with a donation of 5,000 yen. The Government and charity organizations distributed bread and rice, quilts and blankets. Next day, on the charred and chaotic wasteland, people began to build their rickety Japanese dwellings...
Wanderers of the Wasteland. Colored cinematography has at last achieved a colorable success. "Technicolor" is the process with which this picture paints Zane Grey in hues like unto none he ever dreamed of conveying to the babbitt consciousness. His reddest Indian, his most blushful sunset, his glaringest desert appear before the eye, often with a marked degree of credibility. The characters thus incolorated are incarnated in Jack Holt, Noah Beery, Kathlyn Williams, Billie Dove. These, together with Death Valley, the Arizona cacti, Red Rock Canyon?flawless in beauty all?glorify themselves forever...