Word: borings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...True & Beautiful, Cinemactor Arliss thus confers a dubious benison on U. S. schoolchildren by showing them with what simple tricks a dignitary of the golden age could turn his cavalier indiscretions into a triumph of patriotism fit for Muzzey's Reader. Nonetheless, the film will interest many and bore only those who have rooted objections to sentimentalized history. Good shot : Arliss dancing a minuet with Betsy (Doris Kenyon...
English 1 just misses being one of the best courses given in Harvard College. Most of its value lies in the author studied; half of the lectures at least are interesting. The course, falling as it does into the middle group, often has a tendency to bore the undergraduates, but the text usually saves the student...
Less than seven hours after the Belize blow, a second hurricane bore up from the southeast on San Juan, P. R. Governor Theodore Roosevelt Jr. had just left for the U. S. The wind lasted 45 min., killed two, knocked out communications for a day, slightly damaged the grapefruit crop, burst in the windows and thoroughly soaked "La Fortaleza," Governor Roosevelt's mansion...
Through the rich forests of six western States last week swept devastating fire. Lack of rain had made the vast timberlands ripe for flames. Suddenly, scattered fires in central Idaho came together, beat back firefighters, bore down on farms, ranches and towns. Two towns were razed as their inhabitants fled to the open country. Many fugitives stayed for hours up to their necks in mountain streams, caught pneumonia. Animals, wild and domestic, were burned to death running. The heat stirred up tornadoes that fanned the flames to fresh heights. Mining camps were leveled, two more towns destroyed. Simultaneously forest fires...
...odor of sanctity 110 years ago died Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Bayley ("Mother") Seton. Born in 1774 into an aristocratic Anglican family of New York, she married William Magee Seton, shipping merchant, bore him five children. Not for long was her married life happy: financial misfortune and illness came to her husband and in 1803 she took him, ailing with tuberculosis, to Leghorn, Italy. He died in a few weeks and thereafter her faith, already strong, turned increasingly toward Catholicism. She returned to the U. S. and despite family opposition embraced the faith in 1805. She wished to join with Catholic...