Word: bring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other sanctified institutions has been a favorite theme of U. S. satirists since Lowell wrote The Biglow Papers. That this particular vein of fun has run thin became apparent last week with the publication of a ponderously humorous volume, patterned on Machiavelli's The Prince, purporting to bring to aspiring officeseekers the same quality of sagacious instruction, supported by instances drawn from practical politics, that the cynical Italian gave to the despots of his day. A tedious book, overlong, repetitious, The Politician contains a few hilarious examples of Fourth-of-July oratory, gives the general impression that...
...those average pictures which barely make the average. Its amusing moments were supplied by Charles Butter-worth who is never daunted by the material with which he is supplied. While Jean Muir deserved congratulations upon every count for finding the right man in John Boles, one could never bring himself to extend the congratulations...
...complexities which arise when C. Richard Courtney of Central Park, West, is attacked. Hugh Herbert adds another figure to his imposing list of characterizations in the person of one Homer Bronson, shyster lawyer with considerable experience in breaches of promise. The courtroom scene is hardly calculated to bring into one's mind a similar scene from the Merchant of Venice, still it has elements which place it among the great courtroom scenes of all time...
...most departments, the College shows an increase and about 150 additional students will bring the total enrollment...
...only one item in the long education of Alexis Carrel. Science had taught him what human beings are and. with that knowledge, he felt that he had been exalted into a mystical invisible ruling class-a class which, if given the worldly power to match its intellectual prestige, might bring humanity to its full flower. Therefore in his Man, the Unknown Dr. Carrel solemnly proposes a High Council of Doctors to rule the world for its own good...