Word: dieses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rich Man's Folly (Paramount), supposed to have been suggested by Dickens' Dombey & Son, is an earnest but stodgy study of a gloomy man of business (George Bancroft). An irascible and exaggerated enthusiasm for his shipbuilding concern makes him, at first, a monster. He wants nothing but a...
Cancer, second worst killer in the U. S. (heart disease is first), is on the increase. Its cause is undetermined, its cure possible only when the disease is attacked in its early stages by surgery, X-rays or radium. In its advanced stages the specialist can only make the patient...
When the Romantic movement became too saccharine, it was dispatched from the world with some promptness. It takes a genius to be convincingly romantic. The nineteenth century gave birth to Tennyson, Keats, Shelley and a few others, but as the years wore on these men dies, and the century, full...
The story jumps back to 1700, shows the original Orrange Oakes building the house, living in it in ancestral splendor. Then you skip to 1890. Judith Oakes, last of her clan, is an embittered spinster, mistress of a decrepit estate. The old settlers are vanishing, the Poles are coming in...
New Jersey law prescribes that if a Senator dies within 30 days of election time (Nov. 3 this year), his successor may be appointed by the Governor. Outside that limit, his successor must stand for election. A Senatorial election in New Jersey would in all likelihood be a serious embarrassment...