Nominations, please.
It wasn't awarded that year because, supposedly, nothing was good enough.
I refuse to believe that.
Therefore, it follows that we should all refuse to believe it.
Name your favourite half a dozen novels of 1935.
Or just one would suffice.
I will count the votes when 200 different posters have expressed a choice.
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04 May 18
Originally posted by @fmfTortilla Flat : John Steinbeck
Nominations, please.
It wasn't awarded that year because, supposedly, nothing was good enough.
I refuse to believe that.
Therefore, it follows that we should all refuse to believe it.
Name your favourite half a dozen novels of 1935.
Or just one would suffice.
I will count the votes when 200 different posters have expressed a choice.
Maybe, like this year's debacle, they gave out two in 1936? 🙄
04 May 18
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Originally posted by @great-big-stees2018 #metoo - just saying...
Tortilla Flat : John Steinbeck
Maybe, like this year's debacle, they gave out two in 1936? 🙄
Edit: my personal choice for 1935, The African Queen by C.S. Forester
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04 May 18
Originally posted by @wolfe63Indeed but was it thought of as being very "left wing" at the time?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Social Security Act of 1935
The most broadly humanitarian thing the U.S. Government has ever enacted for its people.
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04 May 18
Originally posted by @great-big-steesAfter the Great Depression, the public wasn't so easily swayed by right-wing politics. In fact, from their cardboard box camps called "Hoovervilles" ...they blamed the deregulated right for the economic disaster.
Indeed but was it thought of as being very "left wing" at the time?
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Originally posted by @wolfe63A quite Socialist point of view...very un-American.
After the Great Depression, the public wasn't so easily swayed by right-wing politics. In fact, from their cardboard box camps called "Hoovervilles" ...they blamed the deregulated right for the economic disaster.
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04 May 18
Originally posted by @great-big-steesBy the standards of today, yes. The global demonization of left-wing movements began in earnest after this period. One fatal result: Hitler.
A quite Socialist point of view...very un-American.
04 May 18
Originally posted by @fmfTarzan and the Leopard Men. - Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Nominations, please.
It wasn't awarded that year because, supposedly, nothing was good enough.
I refuse to believe that.
Therefore, it follows that we should all refuse to believe it.
Name your favourite half a dozen novels of 1935.
Or just one would suffice.
I will count the votes when 200 different posters have expressed a choice.
Of course.
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04 May 18
Originally posted by @fmfI'll contribute to the 200 count.
Nominations, please.
It wasn't awarded that year because, supposedly, nothing was good enough.
I refuse to believe that.
Therefore, it follows that we should all refuse to believe it.
Name your favourite half a dozen novels of 1935.
Or just one would suffice.
I will count the votes when 200 different posters have expressed a choice.
Break the bonds of the "Novel!"
Lullaby of Broadway
Lyrics by Al Dubin
Lyrics
Come on along and listen to
The lullaby of Broadway
The hip hooray and ballyhoo
The lullaby of Broadway
The rumble of a subway train
The rattle of the taxis
The daffodils who entertain
At Angelo's and Maxi's
When a Broadway baby says good night
It's early in the morning
Manhattan babies don't sleep tight
Until the dawn
Good night, baby
Good night, the milkman's on his way
Sleep tight, baby
Sleep tight, let's call it a day
Hey
The band begins to go to town
And everyone goes crazy
You rock a bye your baby round
'Til everything gets hazy
Hush a bye, I'll buy you this and that
You hear a daddy saying
And baby goes home to her flat
To sleep all day
Good night, baby
Good night, the milkman's on his way
Sleep tight, baby
Sleep tight, let's call it a day
Listen to the lullaby
Of old Broadway
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04 May 18
Originally posted by @handyandyAbsolutely!
It Can't Happen Here ~ Sinclair Lewis
Was it prophetic?
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Originally posted by @wolfe63Rightfully so. The newly inaugurated Hoover administration in 1929 enacted numerous deregulatory acts for the banking industry and Wall Street went nuts and the crash in October, seven months later, was the direct result.
After the Great Depression, the public wasn't so easily swayed by right-wing politics. In fact, from their cardboard box camps called "Hoovervilles" ...they blamed the deregulated right for the economic disaster.