Word: west
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...altar candles . . . This new god is not a stone statue worn smooth by the kisses of the faithful-he was not born in heaven . . . The new god is born from earth and blood-he strides ahead, and under the thunder of his steps the globe trembles from East to West. This is the red god. The Seine shudders at his impact, and tries to break its banks. Westminster trembles before him like Jericho, and across the green ocean his red shadow falls on the walls of the White House. Hosanna...
Diamond Lil (by Mae West; produced by Albert H. Rosen & Herbert J. Freezer) is probably the masterwork of the unversatile author of Sex, Pleasure Man, The Constant Sinner and Catherine Was Great. As a vehicle, at any rate, Lil remains after 21 years a good sturdy Mae Western. Too dated in 1928 to date much since, and so bad a play that it has considerable merit as a parody, Diamond Lil gives Miss West every chance to shoot the works, to be as majestically unrefined and unreformed as she knows...
...performance in general, however, is less an invitation to lust than to laughter. Miss West's ideas about sex sometimes verge on the impracticable, while her manifestations of it are often a little too gaudy to be glamorous. But the lordly slink and the languid grunt are, for all that, the merely too emphatic mannerisms of an assured and perfected theatrical manner. When, for instance, a new suitor (Steve Cochran) sighs: "My love for you will last forever," it is with genuine mastery of timing and pitch that Miss West inquires: "How about your health?" In any theater world...
...offices throughout the country. Just how well it did its job was shown by the geographical breakdown on its business. The Eastern states (New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New England) contributed 22.7% of the total security and commodity business; the Southeastern states, 22.1%; the Middle West, 20.5%; the South Central, 17%, and the Western states...
Crimson trackmen placed last in a triangular meet at West Point, Saturday, that included Army and Princeton as the two, other participants. Army literally ran away with the contest. It took first place in 10 of 13 events and accumulator 75 points as against Princeton's 31 and Harvard...