Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marquand's current novel in the form of a memoir is really very nice. However much the codfish aristocracy may affect to ignore it, or to be very politely amused-but-still-uncomprehending, it has accomplished a difficult artistic end. In depicting the wonders and the natural privileges appertaining to life in Boston out of the months of the especially blest themselves, he has accomplished no mean success. And the last man to deny that would, let it be hoped, be Mr. M. deW. Howe, your grandmother's friend...
Though the social side makes a strong appeal to the men who engage in House plays, perhaps the spontaneity which enliven the productions is most to be admired. When Lowell presented "The Beggar's Opera" several years ago, the audience was resigned beforehand to a poor attempt at a difficult play. Yet so good were the acting and singing that, in spite of themselves, the spectators laughed with the actors. The excellence of the performance was not due, by any means, to the experience of the players, but to their desire for self-entertainment, which is the essence of these...
...Massachusetts Progressive Committee and numerous student federations it is no kind of policy to use in dealing with the Teachers' Oath Bill. Tonight at 8 o'clock this particular sleeping dog will be ferreted out of its pleasant slumber and voraciously torn limb from limb. Though it is difficult to see any material decline in Massachusetts education since the enactment of the Oath Bill last year, nuisance legislation, like a docile canine with fleas, is obviously bothersome. For attempting to drive out this undemocratic pest the leaders of the prospective gathering in Emerson D deserve congratulations...
...into three main divisions: control of the issuance of new securities, control of established securities and control of exchanges to insure fair play by both investor and trustee. Due to false reports, shoddy accounting, and inability to force reports in many cases, the disclosure of security fraud is more difficult than checking evil exchange practices...
There are so many subjects listed in your very comprehensive program that you will realize how difficult it would be for me to informingly discuss any of them in a letter. They are the subjects that are now attracting the attention of those who desire, as I am sure we all do, to maintain in its full integrity our system of government, and yet make possible the adjustment of its activities to the conditions that have so materially changed in a recent period and are still undergoing great changes...