Word: aristocratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fiction FROM JUNGLE ROOTS-Marcos Spinelli -Covici-Friede ($2.50). The education of a Brazilian jungle aristocrat, who at twelve is an accomplished and uninhibited knife-thrower, horseman, liar and seducer...
...just on the point of raising an Indian from the dead, which gave him a useful reputation. He got to know the Indians in the village: the master of a pump station which pumped water through the jungle to a railroad depot; the pump master's wife, an aristocrat because she owned pots and pans; a young, handsome Indian named Perez; the Garcia family-old Garcia with a silky beard and a taste for music, his young wife, his eldest son, Manuel, home on a holiday from the Texas oil fields, his youngest son, Carlos...
...when the death of her widowed father, a Chicago cop, leaves her an orphan. May knows how to take care of herself. ("Off with you," she tells the oglers, "or I'll knock the Holy Jesus out of you.") At the same time, "deep down May was an aristocrat, a lady." She proves it by marrying handsome, good-for-nothing Mike Flavin, who takes her to Manhattan, buys a newsstand, leaves her to carry on while he drinks, chases women, finally stabs a man over a "maniac beauty" and skips for good. And although by this time...
...long as man has the passion to alter the perfectly balanced conditions of life which nature, through countless ages, has developed," Fernald warned, "the rare and retiring plant or animal has no more chance of survival than has the human fugitive aristocrat in the dictator-ruled countries which are so upsetting to lovers of human liberty...
...Wind as chicory is to coffee. After some badly-drawled atmosphere-setting about the propriety of mentioning a lady's name in a barroom, audiences knew that the girl to be reckoned with would be high-stepping Julie Marsden (Bette Davis), who had turned down a horse-&-hounds aristocrat named Buck Cantrell (George Brent) for one Preston Dillard (Henry Fonda...