Word: beards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole production, had bits made under different directors and assembled the parts when completed. Best line: Butterworth's comment on Durante's party: "This place is littered with movie celebrities - and that makes some litter." Channel Crossing (Gaumont British). A financier (Matheson Lang) with a Christ-like beard is threatened with ruin when a clerk (Anthony Bushell), in love with his secretary (Constance Cummings), overhears that some of his securities are forged. The financier takes steps to kill the clerk. When he learns that his secretary loves Bushell, he spares the clerk's life and takes...
...David alive somewhere in the world. Males neither shave nor trim their locks. The Purnell faction operates farms, a hotel, a bakery, a restaurant. Somewhat less piously reactionary, the Dewhirst faction runs a summer resort, an amusement park and the House of David's most famed possession-three bearded baseball teams. Travelling about the country these teams, which include many an outmoded big league player, sometimes net $4,000 in a season. Last week the House of David's Eastern team was in the news. In Federal Court in Manhattan, the House of David was seeking an injunction...
...right arm, the intelligence test. What test scores reveal, the Commission did not know. For predicting vocational success. formulating social and educational policies, such tests are "patently limited," "utterly inadequate," "meaningless." Best-known of the authors of these heresies is American Historical Association's retiring President Charles Austin Beard, 59, famed liberal historian (The Rise of American Civilization, with his wife) and onetime Columbia government professor. The Commission's research director, George Sylvester Counts, is a professor of education at Columbia's Teachers' College. Its chairman, August C. Krey, teaches history and the history of education...
...Hawaii that we best liked," remarked Hans-Bernard Michlowski the German cadet from the Kreuzer "Karlsruhe" to the CRIMSON reporter. "There we every night to dances went . . . Ho! ho we liked very much the girls with the grass . . . wie sagt man das? . . . skirts. They danced on beard...
...join up with a national movement toward making life pleasanter for pedagogs. Last February they swallowed their professional pride, took out charter No. 279 in the American Federation of Teachers, affiliate of the American Federation of Labor. Last week with 1,200 members the local felt strong enough to beard Cleveland's Board of Education with a petition. That brought up the question of whether the Board should recognize the union. With three "ayes," three silent and no "nays" the Board voted to recognize...