Word: classes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...brief interruption was a trip to Denver, where he shook hands with all comers at a public reception, made a brief speech, pledging himself to work for: 1) a united people free of class hate; 2) "the rehabilitation of our economic life;" 3) an adequate defense program...
...Constance Worth in Mexico, ended in an unamiable divorce. This year Ann Sheridan persuaded him to make his first visit to Giro's, got him to promise to take her to his first premiere. When Brent discovered the premiere was on the night of his weekly navigation class (he recently bought a new 85-ft. yawl), he let the Oomph Girl down...
...Class of 1940. war news was bad, but job prospects excellent. By summer's end, college placement officers estimated, half their 150,000-odd graduates would have jobs. Most openings would be found in teaching, then engineering, business administration, selling...
Safari (Paramount). A graduating class of Columbia University, asked to say with whom they would best like to be cast adrift on a desert island, chose blonde, ladylike Madeleine Carroll. Safari promises to reduce this dream to reality when, as Linda Stewart, Cinemactress Carroll is taken by her wealthy admirer Baron de Courland (Tullio Carminati) on a jungle expedition led by dashing Jim Logan (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.). When the matter-of-fact Baron spends most of his time bagging specimens, Linda undertakes to jog him into jealousy and a proposal by flirting with Jim. The moment seems to have arrived...
...Lavine & Wechsler the most. Nazi propaganda they dismiss rather briefly as, on the whole, inept and ineffective. But they feel that British propaganda is not just another name for Empire publicity. It is a force dark, sinister, pervasive, ineluctable. Its strength lies in the fascination which the British upper classes exert upon the U. S. upper classes. As proof they submit a somewhat original interpretation of Anglo-American relations before 1917. During World War I, they claim, there was a deep cleavage in U. S. sentiment: "To upper-class America, the Allies truly represented civilization, for England's culture...