Word: adding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Maude Odell, 65, actress who played psalm-singing Bessie Rice in Tobacco Road; of heart disease; in her Manhattan dressing room, during the play's 1,392nd performance. Uninformed of her death until after the last curtain, Jeeter Lester (James Barton) and Ada (Ann Dere) ad-libbed ingeniously, spoke into the wings when addressing missing Sister Bessie...
Calling for a countrywide liberalizing justed stipend plan, President Conant of Scholarship programs along lines of the Harvard National Scholarship's ad-yesterday added another period to the exposition of his principles of American higher education...
...ancient maxim, attributed to Accursius (1182-1260) and much quoted by legalists, reads: Cuius est solum eius est usque ad coelum (He who owns the soil owns above it to the sky). Until recently this principle of property ownership was generally accepted, and air rights above property still sell for vast sums.* But the advent of air transport has vastly complicated Accursius' ancient tenet. When aircraft pass over a man's land or over foreign territory, is it trespass...
...starring in his own extravaganza. One act is a burlesque of Mimi Caraway (Madelein'e Carroll), world's richest girl. Furious Mimi slaps Gary's face, then falls in love with him. He changes the offensive skit, but Mona Merrick (Alice Faye), his jealous leading lady, ad libs to make it worse than ever. Mimi then sets out to wreck the show and her romance, nearly succeeds...
Japanese politeness when one is winning or has won seemed to account for a silky statement by that fiery militarist whose rambunctiousness in Parliament provoked the crisis, General Count Juichi Terauchi. "There is talk in the streets," softly ad mitted the Count, "but the Army has no intention of carrying out a Dictatorship or a Fascist regime...