Word: left
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Febrile, fantastic Jean Cocteau, France's No. i playboy of the intellect, left the Paris Ritz to live on a houseboat and do war work. His war work, said he, would be writing a play about love, explained: "Love and War are the only two eternal themes. But when making one it is best to talk about the other...
...cinemagnificence. Technicolor (using a new process) has never been used with more effective restraint than in Gone With the Wind. Exquisite shot: Gerald O'Hara silhouetted beside Scarlett against the eve ning sky at Tara while he propounds to her the meaning of the one thing she has left when everything else is wrecked - the red earth of Tara...
...Georgian suspended publication at week's end, turning its features and news services over to the Journal. That left Atlanta with just two daily newspapers, one of them Clark Howell's famed old Constitution. For years the Journal and the Constitution, both owned by influential Atlanta families, have combined to fight the Georgian, Hearst's Yankee interloper. With the Georgian gone, Atlanta can look forward to a hot battle between Journal and Constitution...
...wheat State, the past three months' (September, October, November) "normal" rainfall expectation was 6.09 inches of rainfall; this year, actual rainfall was 1.75 inches. Nebraska, which expects 4.53 inches, got 1.15; Iowa, expecting 7.81 inches, got 2.82. Total U. S. water shortage reached 400,000,000,000 tons, left several States with their next-to-record drought, left Wisconsin with its smallest rainfall on record...
...Saginaw, Mich., Marcelino Mareno, explaining how he had shot off the tip of a finger 26 years before, aimed an "unloaded" gun at it, shot off what was left...