Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Regarding the horse killed in Jesse James which Darryl Zanuck claims in print and letters was an "accident," it is difficult to see how he can thus construe an animal deliberately hurled over a cliff. I am no sentimentalist but as a decided movie fan I and many like me do not relish having an evening spoiled by witnessing scenes in which there is ill treatment of animals, and cross off the list all such pictures when there is advance information...
Finally, I should like to protest the relentless definition of Professor Feild as the most successful teacher of fine arts. Anyone familiar with the record of Harvard's department in producing capable graduates would stop to consider. This becomes difficult when people are impatient to "undertake an investigation of the complete fine arts setup...
...Schoenberg who has had perhaps the most difficult season of any grappler so far is due for a win from Harold Zaret at 128. He has been steadily improving in technique and this match should be an opportunity for him to show his ability. In the 136-pound class, George Richter has to face James Holt. By virtue of his experience he stands the favorite. His last match deserves particular attention if Ric really shows his best stuff...
...Fine Arts' most popular professor. The spontaneous outburst of student indignation and the formation of a Fine Arts Concentrators' committee to make formal protests are other danger signals indicating that the Feild Case is by no means closed. Much as it would like to, the department will find it difficult if not impossible to end the affair on the present note of "regrettable but necessary...
...tactless, without any graces of appearance or manner, he nevertheless completely vanquished the Venetian belles. He spent fortunes on fashionable clothes, he took dancing lessons, he was often at court-in short, he got around; and one friend once said of him that he could make a conquest "very difficult if not impossible for an Adonis." But when he proposed to the beautiful Magdalena Willmann, she laughed and termed him ugly and half crazy...