Word: pedestrian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Essen, Germany in the person of Adolf Hitler entered the largest single factory room in Europe, the sooty locomotive assembly plant at the Krupp works. At that instant every whistle in Germany blasted, for a full minute. Then came a full minute of silence. Not an automobile, not a pedestrian budged. In Berlin the Rev. Stewart Winfield Herman, acting pastor of the American Church, was slapped smartly in the face for not raising his hand in the Nazi salute during this period of ecstasy...
That is a fine portrait of Sportswoman Eleonora Sears which appears in TIME, March 16. It will interest many readers. Long before the World War, Miss Sears was known as a pedestrian champion when visiting friends in California. You did not mention in your article that the aristocratic Miss Sears once hiked alone from the Burlingame Country Club to Hotel Del Monte-over 100 miles-escorted by a motorcade of sport-loving friends. It was a record-breaking hike. During the same season (about 1911) Miss Sears kept up a stable of polo ponies and rode on the polo fields...
...prime asset of Rhodes is its obvious sincerity and meticulous attention to fact. Another asset is its refusal to drag in that usual cinema qua non, a false romance. Yet these qualities, which make it good history, also make it a painfully pedestrian picture. Walter Huston has to boom out such lines as: "Napoleon tried to unite Europe and failed. I am trying to unite South Africa, and I will not fail...
...There Wise Fools" is not a new play--it was presented in Boston and elsewhere a respectable number of years ago--but it still has a gentle comedy and a steady if somewhat pedestrian flow. It tells the story of three old bachelors whose moribund routine is upset by the will of their former sweetheart leaving them the care of her offspring who proves to be a very pretty girl and a good one even if she does have some shadowy connections with the underworld. Fundamentally it is one of those things which the playwrighting Spewacks diagnose as "Boy meets...
Straight-forward drama with accent on the thrills, "Ceiling Zero" proves exciting in spots though generally a bit pedestrian and rather humorless. The entire action takes place in the central office of the Federal Air Lines which are presided over with ruthless efficiency by Jake Lee, one of the truly old hands. Tex Clark and Dizzy Davis are the two chief pilots, experienced filers of the old school, who refuse to submit to the new efficiency and demand a bit of fun now and then even if the mail or passengers are at stake. This Dizzy chap is quite...