Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only warrior who emerged from the smoke of the Great Supreme Court Battle of 1937 in better shape than before was spry old Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter, 78. For the judicial code was amended to allow Justices of the Supreme Court, instead of resigning, to retire with full pay ($20,000 a year) guaranteed for life. Justice Van Devanter, who for two years had wanted to retire, seized the opportunity...
...Brimstone (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), an old-fashioned Western, elaborately cast, expensively produced, neither better nor worse than scores like it, has the speed, dusty swagger, standardized hokum of the standardized Western. Its dullness is often redeemed by Wallace Beery's loutish homicidal cuteness as the bad man with a heart of gold...
...anti-climactic program, mask-faced Graham's parsimonious convolutions drew bravos. So did the following Theatre Piece, in which Pantomimist Charles Weidman skittered in black tights while Doris Humphrey caressed a purple cube before a background of dismembered limbs and torsos. For a moment things looked better for the tired businessman when symbol-minded, mop-headed Tamiris shook substantial thighs beneath a raspberry-sundae skirt. But this performance was actually a satire on the evils of decadent capitalism. Hanya Holm, disciple of Mary Wigman. led massive cohorts of healthy-looking Backfisch through what resembled a Swedish drill, called...
...take over the system, pay it rent, "considerably less than $10,000 a mile." Last week's deadline, when the company threatened to quit, came and passed. The P. 0., which has the company under contract for another six months, is confident that it can make a better deal, sat tight, said "the tubes are operating as usual, according to contract...
...shek's army took Juichin, its capital, in 1934, Soviet China disappeared, only to pop up a year later in the northwest. A comparable feat would have been for Mexican revolutionists, defeated in Yucatan, to move their capital to British Columbia-except that the Mexicans would have far better roads for their anabasis...