Word: content
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Negro comedies ever produced on Broadway. Inoffensive and in spots disarmingly merry. Brain Sweat is concerned with Henry Washington's "projeck." Henry (fat, benign Billy Higgins, nightclub comedian) has not done a lick of work in two years. While his wife and son support him, he has been content to wear a fine patina on the seat of his rocking chair and cogitate means of making some easy money. "Brain sweatin','' explains Henry, "is de wus' kind of sweatin...
...reader a nine-year period of suspense ended last week when F. Scott Fitzgerald, bad boy of U. S. letters, published his first novel since The Great Gatsby (1925). Somehow during those intervening years the news had leaked out that Author Fitzgerald had big ambitions, would not always be content to turn out facile potboilers for the commercial fiction magazines. Even highbrow critics admitted that The Great Gatsby had been a promising foreshadow of better books to come. Rumor spread that Author Fitzgerald was leading a double literary life, that he was writing a Dostoievskian novel in which...
Professor Ingo Waldemar Dagobert Hackh of San Francisco's College of Physicians & Surgeons communicated to Science a theory that the human body, which continually evaporates its water content, might gradually store up a richer & richer mixture of heavy water, which might well be the cause of old age. Dr. Urey rushed to the defense of his discovery, spurned the Hackh hypothesis as nothing but a theory based on no experiments...
...which had demanded a union election in hope of getting control of automobile labor, had to be content with a bargaining foothold. The motor manufacturers won their fight to keep the A. F. of L. from setting up a closed shop in the industry. President Roosevelt himself described the terms under which the strike was averted...
There is no good reason that people who enjoy passing and kicking a football in March as well as in November shouldn't be allowed to do so to their heart's content. Nor is it to be denied that the undergraduate body, as well as alumni and the players themselves, find more pleasure in a successful season than in an unsuccessful one; and if spring practice contributes to a successful season for a team, there are other reasons than the financial one for encouraging...