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...that they neglect important portions of the semester's work or force too many questions into a short sixty minutes. In either case the resulting grades may be meaningless, and in either an injustice is done. This is a month when many men are preparing course theses, and to distract and divide their attention is to defeat the purpose of the new educational trend...
...Fluffing her hair and affecting an accent, the substitute prepares to travel through the U. S. as a lure to bond-buyers. Meantime a crusading publisher (Gary Grant) launches an attack upon Taronian and all other foreign loans. Princess Nancy is offered $5,000 extra to distract the publisher's attention from his front page. She succeeds so well that the two fall in love. A sleuthing reporter and a low-grade actor uncover Nancy's true identity, are on the point of exposing her when the real Princess intervenes. Thirty Day Princess is light entertainment, competently acted...
...this was not enough, however, to distract Penate's friends. They kept up their barrage of criticism against Carlos Manuel De La Cruz, the man who had got the key job Penate wanted, the presidency of the Council of State. Penate had .killed himself day after Mendieta appointed De La Cruz. The friends charged the Mendieta Government with veering toward a Fascist dictatorship, charged that De La Cruz had been far too friendly with Tyrant Machado. Finally the echoes of Penate's death forced De La Cruz to hand in his resignation and the political factions again began...
...York's public school teachers were actually unbalanced. Many were hopelessly insane, some almost maniacs. Reading down, startled parents learned of a teacher so self-conscious that she had poked a chair-leg into a boy's eye and twisted it ''to distract attention of the class" from herself. Another had sat furred and hatted in a warm room complaining that the janitor was trying to freeze her. Several had commuted to work from suburban White Plains' Bloomingdale Hospital for mental ailments...
...bother with international espionage. But one connection between the two stories was obvious. Both the Paris police and the Sûreté Générale were under orders to play the Switz spy scare for all it was worth in a gallant if hopeless effort to distract an enraged public from the malodorous morass of L'Affaire Stavisky...