Word: jennings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life seem as lively as a cycle on Broadway. In the winter the Polish Janowskis move into the barn next door, Brother George Shaw's cow dies and Step-daughter Doris, who wants to go to Boston, yowls when told to stay at home. In the spring, young Jen Shaw (Jean Muir) falls in love with Stan Janowski (Donald Woods) and Brother George's wife prepares to run away. In the summer young Ollie Shaw flirts with Doris and Brother George Shaw's children get the croup. In the autumn Ollie is sent away to town...
Moments in this red-lettered farmers' calendar escape the curious uncertainty which characterizes most of Hollywood's conscientious efforts to investigate the soil: gluttonous George Shaw asking his tired wife for another piece of pie; Jen Shaw coming out of the schoolhouse one winter afternoon, when Stan Janowski's sleigh is waiting. Heat Lightning (Warner). This small investigation of goings-on at a desert gas-station is sharper and more honest than most one-room melodramas manufactured in Hollywood. Under Mervyn Le Roy's perceptive direction there are vigorous and amusing sequences: the arrival, en route...
...Spot" (TIME, April 27, 1931), pululating with Chinese Communist generals. Should they enter into friendly relations with Fukien they would have for the first time a direct and easy access to the sea. Ominous seemed the fact that the Foreign Minister of the Fukien Government is notorious Chen Yu-jen (Eugene Chen), long the Communistically inclined stormy petrel of South China politics. As War Minister the new state has General Tsai Ting-kai, famed commander of the 19th Route Army in its deathless defense of Shanghai (TIME, Feb. 22, 1932). Governor Li Chai-sum of Kwangsi Province was styled...
...pain made her sharp tongue sharper. Lois May's and Lize's dreams all turned towards the city. But Ed was a good farmer, and little John, from the time he could toddle, showed there was sound stuff in him. Prize of the Shaw family was Jen. Almost unbelievably calm, good-natured, efficiently hardworking, she had run the Shaw household ever since her mother's death. Idealized type of what a farm woman should be, Jen was as understanding as the next one, never bothered her head about not being appreciated; she was well contented to stay...
...Physical Colloquium, Monday, in the Cruft Laboratory Lecture Room, C. K. Jen will speak on "A New Treatment of Electron Tube Oscillators" and I. F. Birch is to lecture on "Concentrated Space Charge in Calcite." The talks occur at 4.45 o'clock after a tea served in the library of the New Physics Laboratory...