Word: breeds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that any actress would give her false eyelashes to play, ends act II of The Wingless Victory and, in the opinion of most professional observers, in effect prematurely ends the play. How Oparre is made first to leave intolerant Salem, and then to destroy herself and her two half-breed children, is a story which has no surprises for those familiar with the Medea legend, or even readers of Joseph Hergesheimer's almost identical narrative, Java Head (1919). An eager minority of the play's first audience impulsively applauded the more ringing of poetic Playwright Anderson...
...Harbor, Me. Each has raised, killed and dissected more than 150,000 mice. Their purpose: to learn whether or not a tendency to cancer is inherited, and, if so, how. Dr. Slye has decided and firmly declared that cancer is genetically a recessive character which she can breed out of her mice and could, if given a stupendously free hand, breed out of human beings (TIME, Aug. 31). Dr. Little, less loudly, declares Dr. Slye's contentions pure poppycock...
...show that madness may breed genius, the neurologists, headed by Dr. Abraham Myerson of Boston, cited the following admired men, more or less mad children of more or less mad parents: Hans Christian Andersen, Balzac, Beethoven, Bonaparte, Byron, Frederick the Great, Michelangelo, Newton, Poe, Swedenborg, Swift, Tolstoy...
...present quarrel which centers about control of the "hiring halls"--the clearing houses for all maritime employment, the unions would play a more sensible hand by keeping their strike from assuming gigantic proportions. A recurrence of the terrifying tactics of the general strike of 1934 can only breed the fear and distrust of the people as a whole and alienate the opinion of those who might logically support labor's claims. The principles for which the unions are crusading, namely fair treatment in hiring employees and decent wages and living conditions for seamen, are as sound as Gibraltar...
...Adams is a lively, ironic book, brightened with choice quotations from the great days of political invective, when opponents called each other "tippling, nasty, vicious crews." "plucked gawkys," cowardly "herds of scalded hogs," "Cockatrice Eggs, which breed Serpents to poison the People." Subtitled Pioneer in Propaganda, it is the first book of a Junior Fellow of Harvard College, marks the appearance of an engaging, readable talent in the field of political biography where such qualities are usually lacking...