Word: attained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...until a few days later when she made her formal U. S. concert debut in Manhattan's Town Hall. Then people who heard her went wild with enthusiasm. Poldi Mildner played at a terrific, breath-taking pace, with a force and authority which few women pianists ever attain. As the audience's excitement grew she played faster & faster. There seemed no limit to the speed with which her fingers could cover the keys. But aside from her technical skill and tremendous vitality, however, the critics found no more in Poldi Mildner than they would have looked...
...nation to annex a bit of another's territory would be lulled into inactivity. Unfortunately such a method of enforcement would work only with almost complete disarmament the world over, when it would be scarcely more necessary than a police squad in Paradise. The first necessity it to attain our international Paradise, after which we can bother about not losing it. Milton to the contrary, we cannot storm it with petards...
...hero and martyr. Heroism transcends the fleeting concepts of any single group or time. It must bespeak a noble answer to the call set forth in the past as well as in the present. That "those who died in 1914-18 were ... led to believe that they could attain a sweet and lasting peace through brutal and coarse killings" is a statement as brutal and coarse as the killings it vilifies. those men were not led to believe anything; they were called upon to surrender all their beliefs and unite in a cause for which many may have had little...
...much more suffering must the world go through before the understanding comes that men are fools, and not martyrs, who go to war! Those who died in 1914-18 were not heroes; they were poor, deluded misfortunates, led to believe they could attain a sweet and lasting peace through brutal and coarse killings. Martyrs are they? Heroes? Sublime, splendid men? Perhaps if they had lived and died in peace, working actually being useful--then perhaps they might have aspired to those titles. But how can we grant them to them when they wasted their genius in killing and being killed...
...agent and a pretty girl sportswriter (Nell O'Day). Rackety Rax was adapted from Joel Sayre's brief novel first published in the American Mercury last January. It uses a simpler technique than recent pictures in the same vein (Once in a Lifetime, The Phantom President) to attain hilarious absurdity. It simply allows the behavior of its characters, who are presented in straightforward fashion, to reach a logical extreme. Good shot: McGloin using a "lie detector" on a speakeasy proprietor...