Word: affected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...latter-day version of a Penrod sequel. To the audience which is reading them now, the greatest picture ever made would come out second-best to Penrod & Sam if coupled with it on a double bill. The plot contains more Warner Bros, than Tarkington, but the liberties do not affect the characters which, in the persons of the amazing children with which Hollywood swarms these days, are Tarkington silhouets made three-dimensional...
...Domestic Commerce by President Roosevelt in 1934. He sat in with State Department officials on the drafting of reciprocal trade treaties with Cuba, Belgium, Brazil, Haiti, Sweden, Colombia. Gentle, pipe-smoking President Murchison saw clearly the impossibility of damming Japanese cottons with further import duties. Restrictions strong enough to affect the Japanese would be absurdly unfair to European exporters, and U. S. policy forbade a sharply discriminatory tariff...
...Marquand's current novel in the form of a memoir is really very nice. However much the codfish aristocracy may affect to ignore it, or to be very politely amused-but-still-uncomprehending, it has accomplished a difficult artistic end. In depicting the wonders and the natural privileges appertaining to life in Boston out of the months of the especially blest themselves, he has accomplished no mean success. And the last man to deny that would, let it be hoped, be Mr. M. deW. Howe, your grandmother's friend...
...audience, in which representation of the fair sex was weak, as "Lady and Gentlemen," Professor Mather said that the Bill is a direct insult to the Corporation of Harvard, since it considers them incapable of selecting their own faculty without legal aid. He held that oaths do not affect loyalty, but "Loyalties change with external conditions," a theory first expounded by Karl Marx...
...Sisi was on parade nearly every hour of the day. She hated it. More than anything else, she hated Sophie. And to Sophie, Sisi was never anything more than a bad bargain. When Sisi quickly became pregnant, Sophie scolded her for keeping parrots, said the sight of them might affect the child's looks. When Sisi's baby daughter was born, Sophie immediately snatched her away, kept her. "Give her the child?" said Sophie. "When she cannot even discipline herself? Never!" The same thing happened with the second baby, also a girl. Finally Franz Joseph took a hand...