Word: fate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greatest part of it. The large, childish Tammon is given as much space, and every line about him is worth reading. There is no more amusing tale than that of Tammen and his struggles to breed a baby elephant for his circus, the Sells-Floto; and the final fate of the last, stuffed, baby pachyderm, which Tammen kept in a case in the Post offices, is told with fine pathos. The remarkable paper which the partners built comes in likewise for a good share of the author's effort. Here in relation of the almost unbelievable productions of the Bonfils...
What will be the fate of America, long used to sectionalism and politics devoted to obscuring economic conflicts, when she is shoved into this new situation? Will it be the Scylla of Communism or the Charybdis of Fascism? Positing that the later Greek City-States occupied a position parallel except for size with the modern state, Professor Holcombe calls in Aristotle to tell us what is possible and desirable. Let the middle class rule! Using the Communist theorist Bukharin's classification of classes he finds that the American urban middle class in alliance with the land-owning farmers can dominate...
...those who are are wondering what is to be the fate of Harvard College under the New Deal which President Conant has set forth for Harvard University, Dean Hanford's report will be an extremely significant document. The specific reforms which he suggests are almost starting in their progressiveness. But of more importance than these is the general trend of through which underlies his proposals. As President Lowell left office, Harvard was in a period of slack water, a period in which the great innovations of the past two decades had yet to be reconciled with the old academic machinery...
...Minute Alibi" the criminal is not very clever, but this is made up for by the number of close calls which he has; they occur, in fact, about every two minutes during the last two acts, and after the first dozen or so one becomes distinctly indifferent about his fate. As a mystery thriller, "Ten-Minute Alibi" does not have much to recommend it; as a melodrama it is of the young-girl-seduced-by-the-handsome-villain school...
...Betty Findon, is almost engaged to Colin Derwent, embryo barrister; but along comes dashing Philip Savilla, and persuades her to agree to go off with him on a sexual junket to Paris. Derwent, of course, knows that Savilla is a crashing cad, who lures women abroad to a horrible fate--just what this fate is never becomes quite clear. Obviously, he must save poor Betty from this awful monster; but how, he does not know until he sees himself in a dream killing Savilla and establishing his alibi by tampering with the clock, so that it will appear that...