Word: bane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weekly expositions, and it would give students an opportunity to observe whether anyone, professors net excluded, were able to assess intelligently a given body of information. Failure to adopt this suggestion will by no means be fatal; but it will insure a continuation of a major bane of American education, "the transfer of material from the professor's notebook to the student's without its passing through the mind of either...
...besides her writing she takes an active interest in the Little Theatre movement, in the formation of women's lunch clubs, is in demand as a lecturer (she will lecture in the U. S. next January'), likes walking, badminton, tennis. Other books: The World's Bane, Cat-in-the Manger, The Spinner of the Years, The Partnership, Trio...
...hospital. Madeleine, very distraught, believes that Paul no longer loves her, that her last hold on him is gone, and that the only solution is to go to Mexico, where divorces are quick and quiet. There she meets Panama Kelly, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, whose perennial proposals were formerly the bane of her existence, but new are most welcome, as she wants to get married in order to get out of the mess her altogether too obliging divorce lawyer concocted for her. At the wedding Paul shows up, Panama disappears like a gentleman, and Madeleine and Paul have another "appointment." Curtain...
...acting, though more interesting, was less even than the play itself. The hesitation and indecisions which are the bane of amateur first-nights were sometimes in evidence. Timing was imperfect; cues were taken up slowly. The voice of the prompter was too often disconcertingly audible. In the main scenes, however, the cast almost always rose to the occasion, and acted with sincerity and poise. Miss Rosemary McHugh, as Mrs. Rooke-Walter, had most of the catch-lines. Better make-up would have enhanced an excellent attempt to enter into the spirit of the part. Katherine Roberts and Jean Goodale...
...closed, he intrepidly opened his second speakeasy venture, ''Joe Zelli's." It failed within a week. Still rich, popular, he will continue to greet genially many of the world's prominent, some of its eminent, within the ur bane doors of his "American Bar" on the Rue Fontaine, Paris. Here may be seen a beauteous cinemactress flirting coyly with a fun-loving British peer over the telephones which hospitable Joe Zelli placed on every table to facilitate social intercourse; or, on rare occasions, a tycoon-sired U. S. collegian squirting seltzer-water at beturbanned Indian moguls...