Word: elementalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...principal objection to the autogiro as it stands today must be considered without thought of the element of safety in the craft. It is the three-fold interlocking item of price, speed, fuel cost. The autogiro flies somewhat slower and at a greater fuel consumption than an ordinary airplane of the same price. However, the designers declare that the possibilities of streamlining and other refinements have barely been touched. Inventor. Chubby, wealthy Juan de la Cierva, 37, is son of a Spanish statesman and lawyer. His father has been Minister of War, Minister of the Interior, last week was appointed...
...limited size of the Lowell affair will act as a favorable element in encouraging the support of the members of the House, while the unusually suitable accommodations for it are clearly superior to those of former Harvard dances. Social functions of this sort distinctly have a place in House life if the System is to carry out the ambitions of its founders...
...Vagabond is willing to admit that he enjoyed the first subway riot of 1929. Though entirely inexcusable morally, it had, at least, the element of novelty. Those of 1930 lacked even that saving grace. Riots in 1931 are just damn nuisances, painful alike to regular travellers and to students with even a microscopic sense of common decency...
There is no outstanding comedy element in America's Sweetheart, although Gus Shy manages to be moderately amusing. But continual merriment arises from the excellent book Mr. Fields has provided. At one point a regiment of stately ladies in ermine appears. Pretty heads tossed back, they parade gracefully to the footlights, begin a song with: "We all got stinking last night...
...July 21). Canadian censors ruled against another brand of sound cartoon because a leering fish in it writhed up to a mermaid and slapped her on the thigh. But censorship is only a form of public testimony that Mickey Mouse and other animated cartoons are an important and permanent element of international amusement. Sergei Eisenstein, famed Russian director, has said: "They are America's most original contribution to culture...