Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Save for a brief road tour in 1931-32, a short stand in 1934, oldtime Actress Maude Adams (Peter Pan, The Little Minister) has not made a stage appearance since she retired in 1918. Her only recent connection with the theatre has been as professor of drama at Stephens College, Columbia. Mo. Recently, 65-year-old Maude Adams went to Culver City, Calif., took a screen test. Last week the result was announced: Miss Adams will star in a picture David Selznick plans to produce next fall. Said proud Cinemogul Selznick: "It will be a privilege to introduce...
...upholding the verdict in the "Salem birth control case," the Massachusetts Supreme Court yesterday threw an effective obstacle in the path of social progress. Basing its brief on a fact of dubious relevancy--"that the moral and social wrongs arising from the prevention of conception appeared . . . threatening in 1879"--the Court showed a deliberate unwillingness to interpret the law in the light of modern needs. The decision was a great deal more concerned with the "sexual immorality" it hoped to prevent, than with the appalling human misery it was perpetuating. Until knowledge long in possession of the rich is made...
...done in this regard in mid-year and final examinations in courses. For the student the quarter hour is a blessing: he has time to read over the instructions, which are often highly complicated; he has time to make selections where choices are allowed him; he has leisure for brief jottings and outlines of his answers. Nor can this be criticized as leading to a "softening" of the standards, since its effect makes for more orderly and hence more valuable thought on the student's part. It is significant that History 1 has already taken this step...
...this was well-known modern history, but not the sort of thing the Cabinet officers of one nation say about another. The reaction, as expected, was brief and bitter. Said a Foreign Office spokesman for Japan: "Regrettable." Said the semi-official German Deutsche Diplomatisch-Politische Korrespondenz: "The German nation does not want lessons from any quarter on the subject of national freedom, self-determination and its best interests." Wrote Mussolini's spokesman, Virginio Gayda, in Giornale d'Italia: "We should like to believe his words were never uttered, but if they are authentic they constitute...
...Patrie. Last week, when London put to Washington the idea of permitting Paris to cheapen the franc, thus giving France a competitive advantage in world markets, while holding the dollar and pound at present levels, the hesitations of the President and Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. were brief. Nevertheless, these hesitations were agonizing to Premier Edouard Daladier, for, although most Frenchmen were convinced the franc must be again cheapened, some French fiscal experts believed Franklin Roosevelt would take this occasion to cheapen the dollar too, as he did four years...