Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columbia students appear not to have outgrown the school-boy complex of considering their teachers the authors of all evil. They apparently feel that the successful student is the one who can put one over on the professor. Accordingly, the Spectator, undergraduate daily, has welcomed the news that the test drawn up by Thomas Beer and published in the last issue of Scribners' has proved a sticker to several "supposedly" learned members of the faculty. It states with glee that the highest mark received by any of these men was 55 and that one of the students was able...
...state. Under the present regime it is debatable whether the released prisoner is any more competent to adjust himself correctly to the demands of organized society than before his incarceration. The educative plan of Mr. MacCormick has been urged with the end in view of remedying this primary evil of maladjustment, and to inculcate a fuller sense of social responsibility...
...borne, unemployment insurance has as many opponents as advocates. But the purpose of the Governors' conference is not to provide immediate legislation on this subject; it is rather to place the facts of unemployment in bold relief so that the most effective means may be taken to combat the evil...
...Clara Bow, testified last week when placed on trial by her employer, accused of embezzling $16,000 from a special account on which she was allowed to sign checks. Unable to disprove the embezzlements. Blonde de Boe tried hard to excuse herself and discredit Clara by attributing her own evil to the bad influence of the cinemactress...
Little Caesar (First National). Undoubtedly the most familiar of current screen figures is the fearless, ambitious gangster who becomes rich on the fruits of evil and dies in the last reel in a heroic manner. With less adroit handling Little Caesar might easily have been no more than a fair program picture and its central character merely a reflection of his many forerunners. Instead, Actor Edward G. Robinson has made his role the supreme embodiment of a type. He is helped by Mervyn Leroy's fine directing and by the fact that W. R. Burnett's story was comprehensive, telling...