Word: beset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most important and responsible office of the class. He must keep in touch with the members of the Class after graduation, and he it is who endeavours to keep the Class a unit. His is the greatest share in arranging the reunions, and in the other miscellaneous duties that beset him from time to time...
Beginning Thursday, December 6, the Paramount and Fenway Theaters will present "Gentlemen Are Born," a picture which should be of interest to every college student. Dealing frankly with the difficulties which beset newly-graduated college men, the plot is both thought-provoking and enlightening. Prominent among the members of the cast are Franchot Tone, Jean Muir, Margaret Lindsay, and Ann Dvorak. The companion feature will be "Hell in the Heavens," starring Richard Barthlemess...
Difficulties beset the makers of Marie Galante. Germany objected to the villain being a Teuton, so he is left without nationality, though strongly accented and with a Prussian haircut. The Japanese Ambassador notified all Japanese actors in Hollywood not to play the part of Tenoki, who is suspected of being the villain through most of the piece. When Leslie Fenton was cast for this part, Japan's Los Angeles Consul demanded changes, sent to Fox studios a censor who was won over, stayed to coach Fenton in Japanese mannerisms. The U. S. Navy demanded changes which would clear...
...more to the immediate future of Europe than the almost unavoidable assassination of one who, for all his virtues, has proved a cruel oppressor of a large Croatian minority. Admittedly a human story is always good news value; admittedly also we are here immeasurably remote from the dangers which beset European nations; but surely such a crude outburst of excessive sentimentality is out of place. We cannot find a serious attempt to put these events in their true political perspective...
...Mook had for ten years been at old Trinity Church in Seattle's run-down "First Hill" district. A vigorous social worker, he offended some of his parishioners by encouraging theatrical folk to come to the church. More vexing to the Trinity vestry were financial troubles which had beset the church for four years. Last spring Rector Mook declined to let his salary be cut from $4,000 to $2,400 or to cancel $1,000 the church owed him in arrears. The vestry asked him to resign. When he declined, a vestry committee went to the bishop. Three...