Word: decays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...above its predecessors in its sincerity and candor, Honorable Estate is like them in the number of its characters as well as in the grim picture of English social decay that it communicates. It tells two major stories: one of Janet Rutherston, confused, vacillating, dissatisfied wife of a pompous churchman; the other of Ruth Alleyndene, intelligent, sensitive daughter of a manufacturer, who marries Janet's son. Janet's story, occupying the first part of the book, is the more convincing and original, despite the facts that it is mixed up with long digressions about the suffraget movement...
...always drinking and reciting Shakespeare. Miss Faye is meant to be a personality girl in this picture, but she impresses us as being as pudgy and insipid as ever. The asininities of Ted Healy are a definite detraction; those of Gregory Ratoff, neutral. But Adolphe Menjou in his decay is proving himself more than a tailor's dummy: a genuine comic artist. His rendition of the simple, high-minded inebriate is perfect...
...high, and to house documents and relics of the present U. S. civilization for the benefit of future archeologists. Builder was tottering, half-blind William Hope ("Coin") Harvey, who left his pyramid unfinished when he died last spring at the age of 85. Believing that the worms of decay were making fast work within the body of society, "Coin" Harvey planned to place at his pyramid's summit the steel-lettered legend: Go below and find the cause of the death of a civilization...
Faulty growth and development of the jaws and teeth of children are due to decay of the teeth, according to Dr. Fred R. Blumenthal, assistant professor of Orthodontia, who spoke last week...
...cited the fact that 20 millions of Americans were still on relief--a figure, he declared, which was as high as at any time during the depression. "How long can we continue spending two dollars for every dollar we take in?" he asked. "It is the beginning of the decay of democratic society...