Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inside a Catholic convent. After protracted negotiations, permission was secured from His Holiness Pope Pius XI. With a crew of 15 men, Alexandre set up cameras in the mother house of the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd at Angers. Never posing or attempting to direct its 1,000 inmates, he took occasional shots for two years. The result, a 65-minute production called Cloistered, was on view last week in Manhattan. Critics agreed that it would interest Catholics, clear up for non-Catholics many a misapprehension about life in a nunnery. Devoted specifically to redeeming...
...bill Dr. High not merely as the Democracy's political chaplain but as President Roosevelt's personal Richelieu. "It is to be an evangelical cam-paign," predicted Van Slyke. "Mr. Roosevelt will preach sugary sermons on brotherly love and the new social order, without making the direct appeal to class distinction and class hatreds as obvious and bitter as in his spring speeches. The new line is to be highly idealistic, so lofty that mere matters of budgets and taxes, debts and New Deal failures will be made to appear crude and vulgar. . . . The chief custodian of this...
...expansible soft rubber rods of graduated diameters. First he makes a hole through the base of the patient's neck into the windpipe. This permits the patient to breathe during the years which may be necessary to repair his throat. Dr. Jackson's first direct step is to compress a small-sized rubber form and insert it into the puckered throat. The rubber upon expanding stretches the throat slightly. Soon as the throat accommodates itself to the stretch. Dr. Jackson repeats the process by inserting a core of larger diameter. "The treatment," said he last week, "is highly...
...connecting with the University circuit. Anyone on this circuit may reach the Crimson by asking for line 394. Outside calls may be made by calling Kirkland 7600 and being connected with line 394. The old Crimson numbers, Kirkland 2811 and 2812, are still connected and calls may be made direct by dialing either of these numbers...
...names of the Committee were not made public at Mr. Conant's office, but it is understood that they will make a report early in the Fall after the Tercentenary Celebration. A report from such a committee is handed direct to the President, and no action need necessarily be forthcoming. If anything is done on the matter, Mr. Conant would have the initiative and would submit recommendations to the Faculty Council which would have the final say on the matter...