Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...historical process. But Danton's Death is just as undramatic as it is indecisive. Fatalistic, Hamletesque Danton, bogged in procrastination and boredom, shouts back at Robespierre but never fights back. Everybody shouts, nobody fights. The play consists of great gobs of 19th-Century rhetoric; it could do much better with a little 20th-century suspense...
Consolidated Edison was more fortunate than most businesses. Vast majority of third-quarter earnings, though somewhat better than second-quarter figures, were far below last year's July 1-Oct. 1 profits. That this difference was likely to narrow in future reports appeared throughout U. S. industry last week...
...Galahad (Dodd, Mead, $2.50), readers could admire not only her industry, but a good piece of popular fiction as well. The story of an idealistic young doctor in a small-town hospital-not Moberly, protests Author Seifert, although "I cannot get people to believe it"-Young Doctor Galahad is better than the usual run of popular fiction because of the author's earnestness...
...Neither better nor worse than Hichens' average two-a-year, The Journey Up is the snob story of a mannequin whose social ambitions make a moral and financial wreck of her surgeon-husband. It is a good example of nearly automatic writing. Its only discernible purpose is to keep Author Hichens' income at about $25,000 a year and enable him to lead the comfortable cosmopolitan bachelor existence to which he has become accustomed...
...Better Toward...