Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unsuitable a time this is scarcely need be pointed out. The strenuous work of the mid-year period prevents preparation for these examinations in January; and the one available week in February is of little use for the kind of study these comprehensive tests demand...
Owing to the demand for tickets at the first performances. "The Adventures of Prince Achmed" will be repeated in the lecture hall at Fogg Museum on Saturday, February...
...Bishop of Durham, rising from the bench of the Lords Spiritual: "I demand that the Government take action to disassociate the Empire from the abominable proceedings now unquestionably going on in Russia...
...consecration as bishop ranks him closer than the priests to God and much closer than the unhallowed members of the Church. Hence the men at Philadelphia - led by that persistent foe of Bishop William Thomas Manning, Dr. Alexander Griswold Cummins, editor of the Chronicle - in demanding the electoral recall of bishops dis pleasing to the priests and laymen who chose them, demand something that is uncanonical, almost heretical...
...Girls Demand Excitement (Fox). This is a juvenile Lysistrata played against a collegiate backdrop in dialog disinfected for young ears. The original framework of Aristophanes' comedy is kept to the extent that the girl students will not "pet" unless the male students stop depriving them of their communal rights. The big scene comes in the basketball game when the girls use flirtatious methods of managing a victory. Girls Demand Excitement is made bearable at times by the good looks of a youthful cast. Best part: Virginia Cherrill (heroine of City Lights) as the girl who eliminates the leading male woman...