Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lincoln colors the Sherwood-Massey characterization, and for that reason the play might be considered derogatory, but "unemotional" seems to be a better word to describe their approach. Well polished by a year's experience on Broadway, "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" is on its way to becoming an American classic...
Remarkably sensitive to aerial noises, the electroencephalograph, while attached to a patient's head, may sometimes pick up short-wave radio programs. Classic is the accident which happened to famed British Neurologist Edgar Douglas Adrian, who once hitched an amplifier to a brain recorder, for a wholesale broadcast of brain waves to an auditorium full of his colleagues. To his horror the electroencephalograph blared out God Save the King. In confusion, half the neurologists rose, half remained seated...
Frank Baum, the man who hit the literary jackpot many years ago writing nice unpretentious stories about a little girl named Dorothy, must be doing more than his share of acrobatics in his coffin these days. For M.G.M. has screened his "immortal classic," the "Wizard of Oz," as only M.G.M. can. With a sort of inverted Midas touch, they have turned fabulous amounts of gold into one of the most imposing pictures of the season. Of course, Frank Baum has been rather left out of things in the process and a strong aroma of Walt Disney drifts out from...
Behind the elegant veneer of Bucharest society, Rumanian politics are murderously tough. The assassination of King Carol II, for instance, was recently all set to take place at a swank turf classic, according to Bucharest police. Nabbed by detectives in time's nick, the nonchalant plotters were said to have been caught preparing hand grenades, boldly confessing, "We were going to toss them into the Royal Box while everyone was watching the big race of the day." Significantly, Lloyd's of London not long ago refused to write insurance on the life of strong and healthy Rumanian Premier...
...crushed through on schedule, and the retreat to the Marne, though orderly, was saved from being a rout with Paris captured only because General Helmuth von Moltke, the German Commander in Chief: 1) weakened Kluck's Army by taking from it troops to police Belgium, 2) abandoned the classic outline of the Schlieffen Plan by letting Kluck swing east of Paris instead of west. Kluck further messed up the Plan by chasing the retreating French after Bülow, on his left, had halted, thus exposing his own flank. But for these errors Moltke might have accomplished the extraordinary...