Word: frontierisms
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...Lincoln In Illinois (RKO) falters through the Great Emancipator's frontier youth, does not hit its solemn stride until long-legged, melancholy Lawyer Lincoln stalks in to meet tightlipped, go-getting Mary Todd. From then on, it is dedicated to the proposition that its doom-ridden hero was nagged into greatness by an ambitious wife...
...Robert Sherwood scripted from his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, is the same as the play's: how to create a tragic mood when almost nothing tragic happens. As in the play, Scripter Sherwood tries to turn the trick with a series of biographical episodes, Lincoln's easygoing frontier life, the death of Ann Rutledge, his unhappy marriage, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, his election. As in the play, Actor Raymond Massey turns the trick for him. But there are also shrewd playwrighting touches: reluctant Mr. Lincoln symbolically taken in charge by the soldiers as soon as he wins...
...Rides Again" is all the more remarkable when one considers that its thesis is the superiority of peaceful methods over violence. Into a wide open town, with its typical saloon characters, comes James Stewart, or Thomas Jefferson Destry, whose father was killed in the course of sherifling a similar frontier town. He believes in law and order, but not in coercion: and "no-gun Destry," as the hombres come to call him, talks the crooks into prison and the town into somnolence. His adventures, except for a few moments of sentimental seriousness, constitute a picture which must certainly come close...
...foreign agencies . . . shout themselves hoarse that Finnish troops broke through the front in all directions, crossed the Soviet frontier and wage operations on U. S. S. R. territory. This is an utter lie. ... In reality, Finnish troops have never reached Soviet frontiers in any direction. As a matter of fact they have hardly set themselves to such a task." (True, except for small raiding parties...
...this "absurd" war, agreed to talk trade. For three months Frenchmen and Spaniards dickered. Once France broke off negotiations, said that ungrateful Spain did not realize the extent of her concessions. Spain retaliated by closing her border to what little trade had been allowed to cross the French frontier. The personable Nazi traders in Madrid did all they could to hamper the talks...