Word: contents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Content of Epistle...
...French-made gangster melodrama, but it has some wry Gallic nourishes. Example: the downtrodden Cinderella of the film (Andrée Clement) is not rewarded with the Prince Charming (Jacques Dacqmine), who runs off with a flashy tart. Instead, she gets a profitable little hotel business, and seems perfectly content with the bargain...
...runs. I suggest that she ponder the paradox of stories being harder to follow than Dick Tracy when they have less substance, which is often the case. And if she can go on from there to make the stories that do have substance as easy to follow as their content allows, instead of the opposite, Signature will become worth reading, and people will begin to buy it. Just the way they buy the funny-papers. Or Hamlet...
...Daily calisthenic workouts are now going on at the Blockhouse, but formal icework cannot start until Tuesday. Most of the skaters, however, are getting in semi-weekly informal practices at their own expense at the Boston Skating Club. Ice time is so scarce that they have had to be content with before-breakfast and after-midnight hours...
...Examinations," he said, "are satisfactory in the qualities they demand. They stress memory and reproduction of course content. This does not encourage original scholars; the student forgets what he crams...