Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...certainly not give the student a literary appreciation of it. The supposition that after a student has an elementary knowledge, he will continue the study of it by himself has proved to be utopian. A single year spent in learning grammar and syntax thus has frequently had no fruits beyond conformity with University Hall regulations...
...next moment squelched by one of those inimitable gusts of Boston atmosphere. How anyone can really get spring fever in the cold clamminess of an April evening in (or near) Boston; how anyone can succumb to the charms of Boston maidens under the bare trees of Walden Pond is beyond our comprehension; how anyone can do anything with one of those Boston maidens even if he were to succumb is still more a matter for wonder...
...Events beyond any one man's control which made this Conservative victory possible included the Labor Cabinet's split, the Naval mutiny and sterling's slide off gold?but it was the Conservative Party machine, reorganized, conciliated within itself and tuned up by Neville Chamberlain which all over England turned the Labor enemy's defeat into a rout. That rout was the reason why the 1932-33 Budget of His Majesty's Exchequer was presented to the House of Commons last week by Rt. Hon. Arthur Neville Chamberlain as Chancellor...
Young women of the most brazen sort, Auckland reporters agreed, were ringleaders in turning an orderly procession of jobless men down Queen Street into a wild scramble of pillage. One of the hussies wore a sweater?the reporters were sure. Beyond that they only knew that the young women placed themselves unexpectedly at the head of the procession and began throwing stones into the window of a jewelry store. Four hussies were seen to escape with skirtsful of jewelry down a side street. By that time their feminine example had spurred the men to some really heavy looting. Auckland police...
Whatever the vagaries of his private life, Mix's screen life has been impeccable. He has never been shown smoking, drunk, or disorderly beyond the usual rowdiness of a film-land cowboy. Destry Rides Again remains true to the Mix tradition. And if it were not the first of six Mix talking pictures which Universal is to produce, all preceded by loud publicity, one might suspect that Producer Carl Laemmle Jr. constructed Destry Rides Again with his tongue in his cheek. Containing all the old trappings of silent pre-War Westerns, with a main street, a saloon entitled...