Word: holiness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...orders were placed to keep his newly-employed workmen busy for five months. Governor Fitzgerald wired congratulations. Beamed Mayor William Timmers: "If it weren't for the fact that hundreds of buyers have come thousands of miles to do business here, I would declare the day a legal holi...
Rebound (RKO-Pathé). Playwright Philip Barry (in Paris Bound and Holi day) gave drawing-room comedy a new fillip by introducing into the speeches of his well-bred characters a form of "cuckoo humor"-causing them, in moments of emotional stress, to go into absurd monologs, parodying the attitudes and technique of serious fiction. Because Barry's characters were rich and well educated, it came to be believed that such gaiety was the height of sophistication. Author Donald Ogden Stewart is an old hand at this type of humor and he employed it in his play Rebound. Less...