Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...husband was en route to Hollywood (see p. 21). Later at Trento, where in his youth Mussolini was imprisoned, crowds roared "Viva II Duce!" and he shouted back "Viva Trento!" The train chuffed on, stopped for several hours in the mountains during the night to give the Dictator a better chance for sound sleep, finally entered Austria where the Cabinet of doughty Chancellor Dr. Kurt von Schuschnigg was almost frantic at the outside chance of assassination. Some 4,300 Austrian soldiers stood along the 100 miles of railway line, backs to the Mussolini special, eyes roving as they gripped their...
...days of the caveman until the present time." Bulk of The Arts' material, however, is concerned with the plastic arts. Like a fond Dutch uncle with the skill of an expert lecturer, Mr. Van Loon begins with the premise that artists are fairly ordinary fellows, only a little better sensitized than most, and that art comes from man's impulse to show the Creator what he can do. He deplores the division between arts and crafts, believes an artist is and should be regarded as merely an exceptional craftsman...
...Lady Has a Heart (by Ladislaus Bus-Fekete; adapted by Edward Roberts; Rufus Phillips & Watson Barratt. producers). On the nearly sure-fire theme of The Admirable Crichton-the butler who turns out to be a better man than the rest of them-a competent cast headed by beautiful Vincent Price and lissome Elissa Landi amble through a pleasant play that occasionally skitters along the edge of being a tour de farce. Actor Price is the same restrained, terribly patient young man that he was as Albert in Victoria Regina...
...subject's score alone is one in 100 quintillion, and when all the scores are taken together the figures are so fantastic that chance is ruled out altogether. Dr. Rhine tried out a well-known British "medium,'' found that she scored well but not better than his best subjects, who were ordinary students (TIME...
...women are wealthier and, according to no less an authority than M. Lelong, better dressed than any others in the world. Therefore they are one of the best markets for Paris dressmakers. But to open U. S. branches-that was something formidable, entailing a little risk and certainly much courage. Let M. Rochas do it, and then, if he succeeds and is not démodé, certainly others will follow...