Word: womens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enemy from the front while the right wing encircles the main body and gradually crushes it in a firm embrace. Trained at the Ecole Militaire de Hollywood, Mr. Charles Boyer has been intrusted with the command. The first move will be a nation-wide series of lectures to American women's clubs. Boyer is just the man for the job. Daladier can bully the Chambre and make it take notice. Bonnet knows his finance. Weygand can play a campaign over his morning coffee. But only Boyer can do all three and make it exciting enough to pack a women...
...trenches is almost as glorious as a night of Boyer and Dunne facing the rising flood in a Long Island organ loft. But subtic and dangerous as his message may be, Boyer will be severely handicapped. Subtic and dangerous is the message that will be spread around the women's clubs of America. Before the French have won their first battle, Boyer will have organized a powerful lobby of women bent on sending their sons and sweethearts into European trenches...
...time when constitutional rights are being challenged on many fronts, the Governor's move came as a shock. In tampering with Thanksgiving--which involves freedom to worship without restriction--Massachusetts is weakening the traditions which the Pilgrims fought to establish. Outside of the Women's Republican Club, a November twenty-third holiday is a national sentiment. Mr. Saltonstall is presuming to tell the Commonwealth it cannot follow its own desires...
...play. But at 83, G. B. S. is no longer foolproof himself. Despite some brilliant thrusts, he bumbles on far too long, says far too little. More of his ideas are old than new, more of his jokes forced than funny. But what Dr. Johnson said of women preaching is also true of octogenarian play writing: "It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done...
...breaks the jinx on anti-Nazi plays (five in a row flopped last season) by breaking the mold. Playwright Boothe makes everything Nazi-totsy by shifting her scene to the U. S., turning her tale into a lively mystery melodrama, and peppering it with wisecracks like those in The Women and Kiss the Boys Goodbye...