Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clown whose phrase, "Is everybody happy?" is known to followers of the stage and screen all over the country, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter last night at the Metropolitan Theatre. "The rot that is printed about the sin and bacchanalian revels of the screen stars is just evil publicity. I saw no more evidences of immorality or of unmorality while in California than you can find right here in this city...
...been aliment for road-shows for a decade or two. It is a problem play, the chief problem for skeptical spectators being whether or not the door of an ordinary hotel-apartment can be locked from the outside so that the person inside cannot get out. Good and Evil, shut up there, wait discovery by the law?Good personified by beautiful innocent Barbara Stanwyck, Evil by the bullet-riddled body of saturnine Rod La Rocque. There is really nothing the matter with The Locked Door except that it is very old. Its antiquity has stimulated Director George Fitzmaurice to invent...
...within--the unifying element which drives men to unity in a brotherly world--replace a medieval, imperial deity who makes irrational demands on his human subjects and savagely punishes or extravagantly rewards those who anger or please him; who looks upon this world and its happiness as immaterial or evil, centering all interest on a supposed life after death...
Prophecy is no new business for Professor Fisher, whose last previous prophetic utterance, however, proved false. Last fall Professor Fisher was prominent among the bull economists who saw no evil in the bull market. He scoffed at bearish forebodings, and even after the bull market had broken he compared its collapse to the failure of a fundamentally sound bank, wrecked only by a psychological "run" of frightened depositors. Professor Fisher's imperfections as clairvoyant were quickly recalled by a rival prophet, Roger Ward Babson of Babson Park, Mass., who said: "It should be recognized that he [Fisher] has changed...
Last week in Philadelphia the Woman's Christian Temperance Union demanded that the Civic Opera Company remove from its Hansel production the inebriate father whose shortcomings are so clearly shown to be of evil consequence. The Woman's Executive Committee of the Civic Opera Company held a conclave, unanimously passed a motion to ignore the Temperance Union's protest. Said Mrs. Henry M. Tracy, president of the Company: "It is perfectly idiotic and shows the lack of knowledge on the part of members of the W. C. T. U. of opera. For even if we wished...