Word: doesn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prey to a wily villain with a wife. When the wife and a cop turn on the girl in a gaudy den of pleasure, she jumps out of a, window as the best way to avoid an explanation. Unfortunately, a tree outside breaks her fall. She lives. The play doesn't. It is a violent melodrama, a case of theatrical hiccoughs...
...production here* Ernst Lubitsch, German director, has produced a suave, beautifully finished comedy around the warning: "Don't trust your husband or wife to your best friend!" A Viennese doctor and his wife try it. It's only because the locale is insouciant Vienna that shooting doesn't occur. The physician, rather unwillingly, becomes involved with a lecherous married woman, largely because his wife is jealous of the wrong girl. When the wife discovers how easy it is for a best friend to fall in love with her, peace is restored. "Sauce for the Goose" is snappily...
...been used here since the college was founded. It took me three months of practice with the bell padded with rags to learn that stroke. First I ring it a few times to get it swinging. Then when it reaches the point where it is almost upside down but doesn't quite go over, I hold it there for ten seconds. I let it ring three times, and then hold on the other side for ten seconds, keeping this up for five minutes. I do all this by giving the rope exactly the right pull. For Sunday chapel, I wait...
Senator "Magnavox" Johnson of Minnesota traveled to Manhattan speak to a mass meeting against a local bill proposed to purify all literature circulating in New York State. Said he: "It doesn't hurt any one when a man tells the truth, and for that reason I am against the clean books bill. . . . Speaking of attempts at censorship, Senator Heflin of Alabama was recently very much annoyed when those listening to a speech he was making went outside to see an airplane flying above the Capitol. He forthwith proposed a bill making it illegal to fly within 6,000 feet...
...Pacifism doesn't mean just refusing to fight when war comes," he said. "It means that in peace-time we must make real friendly contacts with all people; it means that we have got to get into human relations that make it quite impossible for us even to think of killing a German, a Frenchman, an Englishman, or an American. We pacifists failed before the war in that we had not produced friendly relations enough...