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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relations between England and France he felt are now better than ever, because there is an understanding that has gone down to the masses. America is being increasingly drawn into this alliance both because of her common background and the fact that her future is insolubly wound up with the existence of the French Army and the English Navy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Influence Moves American Humor Towards French Wit, States Maurois | 3/8/1939 | See Source »

...critics called Josephine Herbst's The Executioner Waits one of the best novels of the year, ranked it and its predecessor, Pity Is Not Enough, just below the novels of John Dos Passes. A modern U. S. tragedy, told against a big background, these novels traced the history of the Pennsylvania-Dutch Trexler family from post-Civil War days to 1929, at once took rank as one of the best chronicles of a U. S. average family and a social...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Solvent | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...Fogg Museum where this work, in the raw, is currently being displayed, will well repay the effort. Both from a technical or purely artistic viewpoint the display is extremely interesting. There the visitor may trace the product from its almost comic-strip beginning, through the intricate build-up of background, atmosphere, and action to the final stage when it is ready for photographing. It is in this exhibit that the startling simplicity and clarity of the work is best brought out, the infinite and delicate use of detail, and the extraordinarily expressive quality of the animals and other figures. Every...

Author: By H. C., | Title: Collections & Critiques | 2/25/1939 | See Source »

Come what may, the various departments would do well to emulate the comparatively new and active Music division. It has at least attempted to correlate history with its elementary course by introducing men from the History Department to give historical background-lectures. Yesterday Professor Karpovich, correlating nineteenth century thought with nineteenth century music, did a magnificent job of a type almost unknown to Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BATTLES AND SYMPHONIES | 2/24/1939 | See Source »

...Fair Enough," 93rd annual production of the Hasty Pudding Club, with the New York World's Fair and the famed numbers racket as its background, went into rehearsal last Tuesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hasty Pudding Show, "Fair Enough," Has Its Initial Rehearsals | 2/21/1939 | See Source »

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