Word: chaotically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...novel of department-store life (Sweepings) which became a bestseller, then settled in Hollywood to write for the movies. He says in Two Worlds that after years of this work he set forth "bound for the beauty and wonder of the world, and a better understanding of our troubled, chaotic time." With his wife he went first to France, then to England, where he listened to debates in Parliament about fascism, then to Russia, Turkey, Greece, Palestine, Egypt, Ceylon, India, China, Japan. Since they traveled over conventional paths and by conventional methods, they had few adventures, were interested...
...Morrow ($2.50). Reports the trials of a Carolina gentleman-writer and mill-owner who, already harassed by the task of bringing up three children in the absence of a philandering wife, becomes involved in a local labor war. Crammed with action and sexual intrigue, saturated with heavy sentiment, this chaotic melodrama reveals a disturbing picture of life in the South...
This measure has done much to order the chaotic elements in educational teaching. However, it may legitimately be hoped that this is but the first of a series of measures of improvement. Harvard, as a school for teachers, is outshone by a number of other universities, notably Columbia, particularly in theoretical education, and consistent effort and continual reforms must be applied before the University is truly eminent in the schooling of fully-rounded teachers...
...your March 23 issue, there appeared an article headed ''Program for Picker" which will undoubtedly create the impression among your readers that the cotton-producing South faces a chaotic labor problem due to the inventive genius of the Rust Brothers of Memphis, Term., who have invented a mechanical cotton picker...
...cinema worshippers of the house are in a dither of chaotic delight, but Miss Arden is theatrically upset at the boring interlude until she perceives the physical advantages of Bud, the upright and mechanically inclined Adonis. Bud is properly affianced to his loving, apron clad Joyce, but the blonde screen hussy finds his weak point--an invention which will certainly revolutionize the film industry. Dexterous use of this leverage plus a hearty manipulation of her Westian contours puts Miss Arden on the way to success, and the barn. Just as Bud seems on the verge of losing something more valuable...