Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writes. Chief U. S. interest in the decisions reached at Munich should be the shift in Europe's balance of power, lessening respect for international law, lack of observance of treaties, collapse of the system of collective security. All in all, says Editor Armstrong, Mr. Chamberlain might better have adopted a motto implying reciprocity rather than appeasement...
This is the first time in eight years that Jan Masaryk has been in the U. S., where he once worked and where he married an American heiress.* He found the U. S. changed-for the better-but the U. S. found no change in him. Still the urbane, witty image of Cinemactor Dudley Digges in appearance, expression and tone of voice, still a great teller of racy stories and amiable spiller of confidences, he wasted no bitterness last week on the men that so hastily and so clumsily deserted his country. His chief criticism of the Munich deal, said...
...White Steed (by Paul Vincent Carroll; produced by Eddie Dowling) is, thematically, much the same play as Carroll's Shadow and Substance. But it is a better play. Shadow and Substance leaned too heavily on portraiture; The White Steed also has plot. Shadow and Substance was enveloped in a cloud of mysticism; The White Steed shows the warm flesh of humanity. Shadow and Substance had too literary a finish; The White Steed is often combustibly dramatic...
...just finished Jerry," whispered Louis Greenfield hoarsely to the doorman of his Bronx apartment house one morning last week. "I gave my little boy chloroform. . . . He's better off dead...
...Spring Madness," the companion film, oddly enough concerns two Harvard undergraduates, yes Harvard, gallivanting about a girls' college campus in confused but somewhat amusing style. One of the Hollywoodized Harvard students, who is referred to as "the editor of the Crimson," finally gets Maureen O'Sullivan. Which is better than dean's list...