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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Professor Herford is frequently dull, and never says anything that has not been said many times before. The work of Professor Read studies the subject from a new angle, but in the final analysis, his study has magnified one small aspect of Wordswroth's life so far beyond its correct proportion that his conclusions are meaningless. It is not so important to dissect. Wordsworth under the eyes of modern psychology as it is to attempt a tolerant and cogent understanding of his poetry. As a great poet unfortunately out of vogue. Wordsworth does not need a historian or a psychiatrist...
...Smiling Lieutenant (Paramount) was expensively designed to provide Maurice Chevalier with proper and improper opportunities to display his ingratiating leer, wear a straw hat with dinner clothes, gurgle flip bedchamber music as the accompaniment of an amorous escapade. Ernst Lubitsch, hired to give the proceedings the correct continental air, used sarcastic burlesque to brighten up a plot which no one would need to be told came out of an Austrian novel. He had fairly good material to work with-the story of a young lieutenant who, during a review for visiting royalty, winked at his girl just as the Princess...
Twenty hours a day was the usual stint of Tchitcherin. Often he worked without sleep clear around the clock. In those days the Soviet Foreign Office was full of peasants and proletarians, learning to be diplomats. Tchitcherin had to do almost everything himself, and correct what others did. Under the terrible pressure of conducting single-handed the foreign affairs of Europe's largest nation. Tchitcherin burned himself out with detail, reached the point where he sharpened his own pencils...
...mother says she could correct our newspaper work and censor it. Each week. But she does not. The reason: the Alaskan people and Sourdoughs all like it better just exactly the way we get it out. They say they don't want it changed from the way we make...
...joined in a comparative exposition at California Institute of Technology. Sir James's rebuttal to Dr. Millikan's synthesis argument was that as each proton pops away from the core of an exploding atom it generates a cosmic ray. Dr. Millikan agreed that this reasoning might be correct. Nonetheless, he held tenaciously to his own hypothesis...