Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much to ask even of a politician (which is probably not Mr. Hoover's idea of himself) that he define his terms better than is shown in "It is alone the spirit of morals that can reconcile order and freedom," and "There is a moral purpose in the universe." In the substance of his speech he merely showed the intellectual and practical impoverishment of the Republican national leadership by bringing forward the usual vague charges of corruption of the party out of power, and advocated an amateur administration of relief. The Republicans will have to find something more than this...
True, Struck was a fixture at his position. But a good dog-fight like that which is raging between Mike Cohen, last year's J. V. bucking back, and Ben Smith, converted end, is good and healthy at this stage. Cohen is better defensively, but Smith rates the offensive edge due to his speed; he is reputed the second fastest on the squad. Both Cohen and Smith negotiating long, spinning runs for touchdowns in Saturday's romp over the scrubs...
Hold That Co-ed (Twentieth Century-Fox) can be regarded either as a football comedy with overtones of political satire or as a satirical fantasy about the career of the late Huey Long with overtones of campus comedy. It lives up to football comedy better than to political satire because even that small portion of the Long career which the film considers is too strange for fiction...
...Manhattanite who wrote him suggesting playgrounds for dogs, New York's scholarly Deputy Mayor Henry Hastings Curran replied: "The city is a hard place for a dog. . . . Cats do better. . . . One of the most beautiful sights in nature is the hindquarters of the common cat upended on the rim of a garbage...
...executor, Gaillard Lapsley,* offered The Buccaneers as a novel complete as far as it went, but with its conclusion a puzzle which readers might work out themselves. Because it contains two first-rate characterizations, some sharp social satire and a tantalizing dilemma at the end, The Buccaneers makes far better reading than most novels, finished or unfinished...