Word: aspect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...able to sing like the crooners. The reason is a crooner gets his quota of sentimentality with half his natural voice. That's a great saving. I don't like to work." Convention City (First National) is a glib, disorganized batch of footnotes on a familiar aspect of U. S. business. It deals with the Atlantic City convention of the Honeywell Rubber Co. President J. B. Honeywell (Grant Mitchell) is to choose a new general salesmanager. Slick Adolphe Menjou wants the job. So does paunchy Guy Kibbee. But both of them get into trouble. Salesman Kibbee paws...
These are well chosen to tickle reminiscence. And in this respect, Mr. Allen's comments too, are above reproach. If they are informal, if often they take on the questionnaire aspect of the minor parlor sports, one can only conclude that they represent the spirit and the intent of the book. Perhaps when the garish and unsubstantial covers have worn a little, and when references to 1933 appear not quite so obvious and so dignified as at present, the editors may feel some compunction that much effort and fine printing have been spent on a work largely devoted to temporary...
...meaning of the word 'obscene' as legally defined by the courts is: 'Tending to stir the sex impulses or to lead to sexually impure and lustful thoughts.' . . . After I had made my decision in regard to the aspect of Ulysses now under consideration I checked my impressions with two friends. . . . I was interested to find that they both agreed with my opinion: that reading Ulysses in its entirety . . . did not tend to excite sexual impulses or lustful thoughts but that its net effect on them was only that of a somewhat tragic and very powerful commentary...
...able to retain the confidence of the public. This means the whole public, the moneyed groups as well. For the fight of capital lately has been disturbing and the hesitancy of many holders of government securities to make the exchange under the last conversion plan is another aspect that reveals the importance of getting a better psychology...
This coming Saturday afternoon the Army band will parade on Soldiers Field in all its resplendent garb and martial array, and the rival Harvard band will likewise march and will likewise suffer from the comparison, especially from the aspect of precision and novelty of performance. Admitting that the U. S. Military Academy would be a rather lofty standard to which the Harvard band should conform, still the performances of last week and the week before have only clinched the impression that an evolution is in order. Regardless of musical excellence, gold braid and epaulets with really snappy formations create...