Word: evens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Even doctors, some of whom have been "terrible sufferers," find it hard to speak of gout with a straight face. Some, like their patients, pride themselves on their virile infirmity. Osier quotes approvingly Germany's Willibald Pirkheimer (translated into English in 1617) : "I take no pleasure," he wrote, "in those hard, rough, rusticke, agresticke kind of people who are never at rest, but ... are moyling and toyling, do seldom or never give themselves to pleasure, do endure hunger, which are content with a slender diet...
...press and the cinema, devious activities in politics, assaults on civil liberties-which, though in part damaging, are not all germane to the subject. Privately last week, George Seldes admitted to friends that he was annoyed: for at least the first week after publication, The Catholic Crisis was not even mentioned in Manhattan newspapers...
...Even his opponents admit that Picasso has influenced the art of his time more than any of his contemporaries. As an inventor and transmitter of painting techniques he is unrivaled. A believer in eclecticism if not in consecutive growth, Picasso himself knows why he is always changing. Says he: "The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. That is why we must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there...
...Even such shrewd comics as Hiram Sherman and Eve Arden fail to be very funny, while Kern's prettiest tunes are drowned out by the heavy artillery of the plot. The show gets good only when the barn theatre is forgotten and some attractive youngsters such as Ingenue Grace McDonald sing and dance. But by then, unfortunately, there's no use locking the barn door...
Paced by smooth-passing, slick-running, drop-kicking Nile Kinnick, the little band of Hawkeyes (Anderson uses only five or six substitutes a game) came from behind to lick mighty Minnesota, 13-to-9-their first victory over Minnesota in ten years. At the start of the season, even the most loyal Iowa rooter expected nothing more than a second-division Conference place for the Hawkeyes. Last week Iowa was in second place, with a chance to tie Ohio State for the Big Ten title...