Word: flower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Priest of the Shrine of the Little Flower justifies the present German persecution with the theory that Jewish oppression "has only followed after the Christians were first persecuted"; when he bursts forth in unreasoning attacks upon "communists" and "money changers";--then he is violating all that either the Catholic Church or American democracy have stood for. Tolerance today has become of paramount importance, and both church and state must make sure of its preservation and strengthening...
Pygmalion (Gabriel Pascal) is Bernard Shaw's famed comedy about the transformation of a Cockney flower girl into a lady by a phonetics expert; the simultaneous transformation of the phonetics expert into a human being by the flower girl. As the first authorized, full-length screen version of a play by the world's No. 1 living dramatist, Pygmalion could scarcely have avoided being important. It could easily have avoided being good. As produced by Gabriel Pascal and acted by Wendy Hiller and Leslie Howard, it is not merely good but practically perfect...
...Production Committee is headed by John Barnard '39. Walter Webster '39, is Business Manager, Irving Chase '39, Lights, Robert Woodward '40, Properties, Max Kraus '41, House Manager, John Flower '39, Stage Manager, George Stansfield '40, Costumes, Paul Morgan '39, Carpenter, L. John Profit, Program, and William Hartwell '40, Assistant Stage Manager...
Many requisitioned busses bringing flower-bedecked soldiers back to Berlin from Sudetenland were inscribed: "The War is Over!" Also released to civilian life were the Labor Service youths, detained an extra month to work on Germany's counter-Maginot line facing France. These fortifications, heretofore called by U. S. correspondents the Siegfried Line, were last week officially christened Limes* by the Führer himself...
...Though it is too soon to show modern designs that would have all the fine qualities of the flowing period of an artistic development, this is the most important phase in the growth of an architectural period as the seed from which the ultimate flower is to spring is being sown...