Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miles was mainly responsible last spring for the Club's presentation of Richard Hughes' "A Comedy of Good and Evil", which at the time critics declared the club's finest success in a decade...
Traditional among the more out-at-elbow and haphazard methods of student self-rule at Harvard has been the raising of funds by the various house committees. Each year this necessary and indispensable evil has to be met to assure the proper functioning of student affairs within the houses, and each year finds an assortment of antiquated and unmethodical systems in use for the raising of these funds. That so much time has already elapsed without a common, practical method having been accepted is unexcusable, and it is all too plain that some common basis must be reached soon...
...under her mother's orders (TIME, Aug. 31).* Twenty-five other States, two Canadian provinces, one Mexican state, one Swiss canton, and five European countries have laws permitting or ordering the sterilization of criminals and mentally incompetent persons. In general, the effort is to prevent transmission of evil to children and children's children...
...resuscitate small industries laid low by Depression, the Government sponsors a "cooperative finance" bill. It is bitterly opposed by an evil capitalist, George Sartos (Sidney Blackmer), who fears that his big canneries will surfer. He sends his blasé lawyer. Jim Blake (Henry Wilcoxon), to lobby against the bill, mean while dallies with Blake's wife (Evelyn Brent). Blake quashes the bill, goes fishing in a small town where he meets Charlotte Brown (Betty Furness), owner of a small cannery whose bankruptcy is also bankrupting the town. Suddenly seeing how wrong he has been and how tired...
...difficult task of reanimating scenes from the past. Nova Pilbeam, the new GB star who plays the part of Lady Jane, may not be a finished actress, but she has a quaint, old-fashioned charm which seems eminently suitable. Cordie Hardwicke, as the ambitious, cold-blooded Warwick, makes an evil geni of convincing unamiability. The supporting cast is of high calibre, thus insuring against any let-down in the minor, transitional scenes...