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...dawn John Deering was taken to the prison courtyard, strapped in a chair, a cap over his head, a target over his heart. At Sheriff S. Grant Young's orders, five deputies raised their rifles and John Deering got what he asked...
When news of the Fascist uprising reached Barcelona, two years ago, factory whistles all over the city began to blow. In the grey dawn, while the street lights were still burning, one whistle sounded, then another, then a hundred-steadily, mournfully, as in the old days the belfries clamored together in times of peril. Fascist troops were marching on the centre of the city...
...force and was flying a French commercial-line passenger plane. Intense and nervous, with limited flying experience himself, Malraux made 65 flights over Fascist territory, was twice injured in crashes. His daily routine while writing Man's Hope was that of other Loyalist fliers-getting up before dawn, taking a bus from the Hotel Florida to the big municipal airport at Barajas, holding a conference on the day's plans, then taking off or waiting for a squadron to return. Hard-bitten Loyalist aviators recall Malraux's nervousness, his anxiety when planes did not get back...
There are moments in Suez when audiences may feel a presentiment that Ferdinand de Lesseps is about to start humming Marie, the Dawn Is Breaking. In the brief interval since he played the orchestra leader in Alexander's Ragtime Band, Tyrone Power has not had time to make major changes in his technique. Otherwise, his performance is well up to the standard of similar roles in Lloyd's of London and Marie Antoinette. In a supporting cast which includes Joseph Schildkraut, Henry Stephenson, Nigel Bruce and Director Miles Mander, drafted for the role of Disraeli, the ablest member...
...some 30 outspoken "young intellectuals," including such names as H.L. Mencken, Van Wyck Brooks, Lewis Mumford. The startling thing about the book was the contributors' pessimism. While the press, economists and politicians glorified U.S. prosperity, these intellectuals croaked of U.S. economic shakiness; while others were snuffing the dawn of a U.S. cultural renaissance, these contributors found U.S. culture chiefly distinguished by shallowness, immaturity, vulgarity. At the time this diagnosis seemed harsh and cockeyed. When the literary "renaissance" of the 20s petered out, and prosperity vanished in 1929 even more completely, these gloomy critics were seen...