Word: european
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anything when drunk, and the climax of Woman Chases Man is the way in which Miss Travis gets Kenneth's signature to the contract for Nolan Heights. Her efforts are complicated by the connivings of Nina Tennyson (Leona Maricle) whom Kenneth has brought home with him from European travels and who designs to victimize him so that she can live at ease with her true love Henri (Erik Rhodes). To forestall Virginia's schemes, Henri, at one point in the proceedings, chases her into a magnolia tree. To forestall Henri, Virginia's ally (Ella Logan) bites Henri...
Since 1931 the U. S. company has been administered as part of the Lipton estate by Lord Inverforth and other Lipton trustees. Its sale last February brought it not only into closer union with the English company but into the corporate constellation of Unilever, Ltd., huge European margarine and soap combine (TIME, Oct. 15, 1934). Many a U. S. investor was surprised to learn last week that Lipton, Ltd. is among the myriad companies which Unilever dominates...
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL DYNAMICS (3 Vols.)-Pitirim A. Sorokin - American Book ($15). Herculean survey of world cultural changes in the last 2,500 years. An attempt by a Harvard sociologist, supported by data of 20 U. S. and European researchers, to invalidate and replace the revolutionary theories of Karl Marx, Spengler's gloomy outlook for Western civilization...
...will not need the reminder from Ecclesiastes that Author Feuchtwanger quotes: "Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us" (1 :10) to realize that much of the action of The Pretender parallels present European events. To give himself a freer hand, Author Feuchtwanger has based his story on a scanty and little-known episode in the history of Asia Minor. As usual he gives his far-off tale the vivid immediacy that has won him a place in the first rank of historical novelists...
Neither to introduce a modern European style nor a fixed idea of "Gropius" architecture but to "teach an attitude towards the problems of our generation which is unbiased, original and elastic," has Europe's leading "modern" architect come to America and to Harvard...