Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back to California and his home at Stanford University, it is to work, not to play. Last week he was hard at work there in the name of oil conservation. As his train sped him back from Los Angeles to Washington and an office stacked with the most technically complex problems of the Hoover administration, he left behind him a large group of California oil operators more conservation-conscious than ever before. Secretary Wilbur's parting words had been: "Unless oil operators quit squabbling, the government will have to take charge...
...drones from the workers, and charitably, the Aesthetes from all of these. No longer need the Harvard man feel reticent in the presence of strangers and resort to broad A's and purloined gems from Henry James. After this resolution of his adopted character into its component parts, the complex is dispelled, all inhibitions swept away, and he may feel free to indulge in untrammelled self-expression...
...These buffoons and Doris Carson, a very personable girl whose adroitness as a tap dancer is marred only by awkward elbows, are the chief contributors to a pleasant diversion which must still be mainly credited to the exuberant chord progressions of Brother George Gershwin, the deliberately bad or complex rhymes of Brother Ira. Nancy's Private Affair. Minna Gombell, a fulsome beauty, plays the heroine of this romance by Myron C. Fagan, in which a wife who has allowed herself the pleasure of wearing sturdy woolen stockings, comfortable sweaters and helpful horn-rimmed glasses, learns of an old necessity...
Destroyers and Cruisers. In the destroyer category it may be possible to strike a simple ratio among the Powers, but cruisers come in so many sizes of such widely different fighting power that they present a highly complex problem in comparison, perhaps to be solved with the famed "Hoover Yardstick" (TIME, Sept. 23). Exactly what this is the Engineer-President has never publicly explained; and the Sea Lords of the British Admiralty to whom it has been privately explained have never been enthusiastic. But last week Ramsay MacDonald said in his hearty ringing way: "We shall deal with every class...
...cosmopolitan and perverse Berlin, Sadism and kindred anomalies are well known and understood. The Sadist is recognized as an individual who commits acts of cruelty upon animals or humans not in a spirit of simple violence but because he derives from them complex sexual satisfaction. As every Berlin detective knows, Sadism takes its name from a Frenchman born in the reign of dissolute Louis XV, famed Donatien Alphonse François Comte ("Marquis") de Sade, whose incredibly voluminous and wearisomely detailed writings glorify "the philosophy of cruelty for its own sake" much as Christian writers exalt Divine Love...