Word: wistfullness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Great Commandment (Cathedral Films), as sombre as a pogrom and sometimes as bloodcurdling, tells the story of a Jewish revolt against the Romans in 30 A.D. After treating the audience to a pretty thorough study of oppression at its Roman worst, the picture knuckles down to entertaining. Joel (wistful...
Thomas Wolfe always needed editing, but not this kind. With the best will in the world and the notion that Wolfe was "first of all, a poet" the publishers have anthologized 71 pieces of descriptive, rhapsodic and wistful prose from his novels and shorter works. The effect: that of sticking...
With all his genius for selling literary junk, Max Salop has an almost wistful ambition to become a "legitimate" publisher. In 1933 he bought the highbrow Dial Press from Ambassador to Greece Lincoln MacVeagh and took a beating for art's sake. He lost money-probably the only time...
The New York World's Fair (attendance in six weeks: 7,419,283) is not only three times as large, but three times as lively, as the Golden Gate Exposition. By day the Exposition is more impressive looking. But with its many individual buildings for industrial firms (a number...
The Harvard cheering section had no complaint to the effect that the Ulenmen would have won in the home waters. But with a wistful sigh they reflected that it would be nice if Princeton and every other college in the league had similar, standardized pools. If that were true, a...