Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Glass: "My judgment is that there is no kind of cowardice on this earth that is worse than an insinuation against an honest man who because he is dead, cannot defend his own character...
...Hughes said: "We frankly say that if his [Remus's] mental condition was at the time he committed the homicide as it was shown to be at the time of the trial before us, the verdict was a most flagrant and reprehensible outrage of judicial administration which cannot be too strongly condemned...
...Jonson's play, done by the ambitious Theatre Guild. It does not open until Monday, but in the Guild's hands and acted by Alfred Lunt, Margalo Gilmore and Dudley Digges it cannot but be a huge success...
...Behold, the Bridegroom, one taste of his fatal fascination had the effect of arsenic upon the heroine. Now, in The Behavior of Mrs. Crane, a polite comedy by one Harry Segall, he is called upon to act the part of Bruce King, just one of those men whom women cannot forget. The women, to be sure, are only two; Mrs. Crane and the temptress who has stolen her husband. Since wily Mrs. Crane has promised to give Mr. Crane his freedom in case he can find her a fitting successor to himself and since the appealing and wealthy Mr. King...
...contemporary U. S. Mr. Levy marries a Christian woman, has a child by her. But he is troubled about his race, hurt by the slurs of Nordics; so he finally leaves his family to go on a Jewish mission in the Balkans. The thesis is that a Jew cannot lead a full and intellectually free life on earth when he does as Gentiles do. Many critics have passionately praised this book, but an epic is seldom written when an author is straining so mightily to create...