Word: failings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...risk of being Lippmannish I should like to add that the rest of the editorial in my opinion is good, and no one can fail to support your stand for moderation in Harvard football. For moderation is the Greek ideal, and of all peoples they were most successful in the art of physical recreation. V.H. Kramer...
...Then, should you fail to do so, the Nation will demand from you an accounting...
...universal peace on earth good will toward men return engagements of that most excellent film "All Quiet on the Western Front" will be apropos and decidedly timely. Without overstating the power of the screen it is safe to say that a viewing of this picture cannot fail to inspire a decided conviction that no matter what the issue, settlement by war is not worth the price. "All Quiet on the Western Front", is more than good peace propaganda, it is very good screen drama. It is stronger and more effective than recent anti-war-films because it is not merely...
...shrewd Producer Shumlin (Grand Hotel) knows, plays about homosexuals or children seldom fail. To take the part of impish Mary he looked no farther than Miss McGee who had played in the U. S. stage version of Mädchen In Uniform. Miss McGee, who squeezes the last drop of perverse venom from her characterization, is a reed-slim actress of 23 who can pass on any stage for 13. Born of British parents in South Africa, she was taken to Canada when young, went to the University of Toronto. She has been trouping for four years, is thoroughly sick...
...Ulmer's drug store to the corner of Bank Street, then up a narrow flight of stairs to Publisher Sanders' tiny office. A Boy Scout was first in line. A 78-year-old town character named Pliny B. Seymour had himself fingerprinted "in case my memory should fail or something." A couple from the cannery brought their four-month-old daughter. The whole Rotary Club, including Representative Wadsworth & Son James Jeremiah ("Jerry") who sits in the State Assembly, marched over from their weekly luncheon to press their fingers on a chemical pad, press them again on a sensitized...