Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plenty of unwelcome advice. He has a wife and two children in Fall River whom he visits weekends. After March 4 he probably can be found in a cubby-hole office at the White House, quiet and self-effacing but exerting a sound wholesome influence over the Presidency far beyond the country's realization...
Though Hollywood's leading couturiers have long been successful not in copying fashions but in setting them, it is only recently that the cinema has started to revolutionize the art of interior decoration. Beyond its direction and cast, Trouble in Paradise is fortunate in its sets, by Hans Dreier. Furniture manufacturers would do well to examine closely a collection of clocks which mark, with morbidly graceful hands and pleasant tinkles, a space of several hours in which Miss Francis and Mr. Marshall are up to no good. Also, Miss Francis' bed, whose contours are inviting but polite...
...College's literary roster. The "Critic" will serve mainly as a month piece for opinions concerning Harvard policy and educational trends, as well as national affairs, a function which no existing local publication taken as the sole basis of its endeavors. The periodical will contain articles by men beyond the narrow pale of Harvard life, a field until recently untrod by undergraduate editors. The aim of the Critic's board will be to express all shades of opinion, and will shun a literary, highly intellectual flavor. The monthly evidently purposes to be in the thick of the battle, printing every...
...when there was someone whom you rather questioned, if at the same time he seemed earnest and sincere, and consecrated-that miserable word that has been used to cover so many deficiencies and so much sloppy thinking-you rather thought he would do. Preachers who would have bored you beyond endurance you sent cheerfully to the foreign field; young men and women just out of college who knew nothing and did not even know they knew nothing, you sent to a people centuries...
...Other receivership suits were pending against the Frisco last week and this friendly Federal action lessened the possibility of separate receivers in several States operating at chaotic cross purposes. But complications threatened when the attorneys who had been seeking receivership for their clients protested that Judge Faris had acted beyond his jurisdiction. Judge Faris again took the problem under consideration with the observation that the Frisco had "gotten itself into an unholy snarl." Later he appointed John Gerdes Lonsdale, president of Mercantile-Commerce Bank & Trust and 1929-30 president of A. B. A., as a co-receiver with Mr. Kurn...