Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wilson" will stand for many years a vigorous documentary screen biography of a great American. It is not a motion picture with a message, but rather the vivid and moving story of an important President. Darryl Zanuck shows a quiet man of ideals struggling in a stormy era of materialism and comes forth with inspiring Americana...
...State Department fledgling, he was entrusted with such tricky diplomatic odd jobs as: 1) escorting the late King Albert of Belgium and the Prince of Wales about the U.S., 2) acting as Woodrow Wilson's protocol adviser at Versailles. In more recent years, he is credited with the tricky job of persuading Brazil to give the U.S. World War II air bases. Natty Diplomat Caffery keeps his figure trim by swimming, climbing mountains, and forgoing lunch. Shy, nervous and addicted to bad puns, he is highly regarded by the Department as a painstaking foreign serviceman who plugs away...
...such richly colorful material, woven into a narrative that is never schematic, and yet never a mere miscellaneous grab bag of historical information, is Van Wyck Brooks's book constructed. Its individual word-portraits-of Alexander Wilson, the dour ornithologist and bird-painter, of Davy Crockett, teller of tall backwoods tales, who thought they made a book "jump out of the press like a new dollar from a mint-hopper," of Fenimore Cooper, whose father gave him 23 farms in New York State when the future novelist was expelled from Yale-are equal to Brooks's best...
...Versailles Orlando had been one of the Big Four - with Wilson, Lloyd George, Clemenceau. Then Wilson had stubbornly refused to grant Fiume to Italy. Orlando had failed to overcome Wilson's objection, and the resentful Italians had driven their Premier into political oblivion...
...Wilson (Alexander Knox, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell, Charles Coburn; TIME...