Word: enrich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plot which Joseph L. Mankiewicz & Henry Myers wrote for Million Dollar Legs has something to do with the Olympic games. In order to enrich the treasury of Klopstokia, Migg Tweeny, visiting the country in the capacity of brush salesman, decides to take its amazingly able-bodied citizenry to Los Angeles. His plans to win all the events in the Olympics are impeded somewhat by a spy, in league with the cabinet members. She, Mata Machree (Lyda Roberti), makes friends with all the members of the team and causes them to squabble with each other. It looks as if Klopstokia...
...afford Germany a period of recuperation. . . . The present extreme crisis must bring home to all peoples of the world the fact that all the countries grow poor together. The inverse is just as true; all countries grow rich together. A lightening of burdens and a greater freedom of trade enriching one country will enrich...
...Dowling makes his venture a howling success. Subplots concern his romance with the niece of the rival hotelkeeper, the effects of right living on a case-hardened gambler and two thuggish assistants. Far from a great picture, perhaps not even a good one, Honeymoon Lane should continue to enrich its originator, to amuse cinemaddicts who are partial to bromidic comedy. Sample shots: Dowling trying to send a telegram while Ray Dooley kicks his head; the king carrying a suitcase upstairs; the thugs and an aide-de-camp wrestling for a piece of cherry...
...Central Europe, who had, in turn, ben awakened by the challenge of Near Eastern civilization, How these Eastern stimuli reached Central Europe and just what effect they had there is still not clearly understood, but the Harvard-Pennsylvania expedition will, if it continues its labors, be able to enrich the museums of the two universities with collections which will be unique in the United States...
...find and develop the hidden gifts of childhood is the purpose of modern creative education, according to Hughes Mearns, Professor of Education at New York University. Education, he feels, should preserve and enrich the original endowments of the child, rather than crushing these innate talents under the heavy weight of adult philistinism. Mr. Mearns criticism of present education is really an indictment of modern society as a whole. In attacking the unimaginative and conventional in teaching, he is aiming at the same quality in American civilization in general. As the New Humanists would have it, Mr. Mearns is opposing...