Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week of more than moral interest. Italy is basically so poor in natural resources and in cash that never in modern times has she been able to make more than a roulette player's cast on the world's battlefields for the supreme prize of Power. The classic roulette odds of 36 to 1 approximately represented Italy's chance to conquer and to hold against other players, all of Ethiopia, even before sanctions were declared. But it is possible to win heavily at roulette...
...largest exporter of horses destined to be eaten by others, the British Empire also leads in pointing out the iniquities of the horsemeat industry as conducted abroad after the beasts have been bought and paid for. Three years ago a staff artist for the Illustrated London News produced a classic series of anti-horse-eating sketches (see cut). In Paris humanity to horses about to be eaten is preached by L'Intransigeant, striven for by La Ligue Française pour la Protection du Cheval. Main reform urged is to kill the old nags where they...
...Minnesota, Princeton. Southern Methodist and Texas Christian were all strong Eastern Rose Bowl material. Dartmouth, the nation's highest scoring major team, has yet to play Princeton. For the third successive year, Princeton's juvenile journalists derisively flayed the Rose Bowl game, this time as a "commercial classic," summarily counted their team out. Minnesota would probably decline, if asked, because of Big Ten conference rulings. Left as most probable choices were Southern Methodist and Texas Christian...
...fitting preliminary to Saturday's classic struggle, the Crimson Jayvee football squad will wage battle with the corresponding Yale team at 2.30 o'clock this afternoon on Soldiers Field...
...Down East (Fox), like The Three Musketeers (see above), is an effort to redistill for the sophisticated audiences of modern talking pictures the elixirs which their predecessors found so stimulating many years ago. The 1920 production of Lottie Blair Parker's classic grossed $2,000,000 and the scene in which Lillian Gish floundered toward a happy ending through the ice-cakes probably drew as many tears as anything else David Wark Griffith ever directed...