Word: elements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because they usually have to work & play too hard and go to bed too early, the 12 million small fry who compose a substantial element of the U. S. cinema audience cannot get to the theatre as much as either they or Hollywood producers would like. Vacations are exceptions. On the theory that children like pictures about children, several such appear at Christmas, at Easter and in June. Released on schedule last week were two major productions involving the top single-digit stars of both sexes, RKO's Bobby Breen, 9, and Twentieth Century-Fox's Shirley Temple...
...Renaissance castle on noisy Washington Street in Brooklyn's "downtown" section, a half mile from Henry Ward Beecher's old Plymouth Church on Orange Street and the "Heights," where some of the borough's first families still reside. Conservative organ of the top-drawer element in a conservative city not unlike Boston or Baltimore, the Eagle rightly regarded itself as one of the country's most influential papers...
Elated but urbane, the Guild's shrewd Chairman Maurice Rentner purred: "Surely the stores in question should be convinced by this time that our plan contains many beneficial things. . . . [It] would be most regrettable if these court proceedings were to be regarded as containing an element of defeat for anyone...
...present ruling a House Master is allowed to fill 5 per cent of his annual quota with graduate students. Small as this percentage may seem, it equals one third of the men who are refused admission to the Houses each year. Although most of the graduates form a desirable element, and contribute a great deal to House activities, the fact remains that the Houses were built for the undergraduates, and they should be considered first...
Gladstone was Chancellor of the Excequer. As Henry Adams, the precocious young son of the American Minister to London, put it, "If in the domain of the world's politics, one point was fixed, one value ascertained, one element serious, it was the British Exchequer, and if one man lived who could be certainly counted as sane . . . it was the man who had in charge the finances of England . . ." Yet in the frenzied undercover drama that took place in the British capital during the years of the American Civil War, no character was made more of a monkey than...