Word: fitfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comedy this time has a serious basis in spite of all its humor. Kings-land, Macy, the Republican State Chairman, has had a fit of hysterics which hinder any chances for the governorship that the G.G.P. possesses. A man of force and sincerity, Mr. Macy possesses the unfortunate characteristics of stubbouness and suspicion. He is imbued with the idea that he must carry on in the Hughes and Theodore Roosevelt vein of reform and has selected utilities as the animal which will bring him fame. Aside from the fact that this issue has no live interest today, it has given...
...present English situation, although popularly considered desperate, is not nearly as parlous as Mr. Hearst would like us to believe. Their industries, the unemployment situation, their psychology, are all in better health than in America, and although Mr. Priestly may see fit to throw up his hands in holy horror at the squalor and degradation of the working classes, this is unmistakably the reaction of a gently nurtured being shuddering at its first contact with the icy waters of life. Had his "English Journey" been taken in the sweatshops of New York, or in the coal mines of Pennsylvania...
...hard put to know how they can use their higher education to proper advantage. But in this perplexity, one thing is cortain. Any policy which tends to make the years of a man's college life easier and more pampered, is a policy, which can only make him less fit, not more fit, for the very conditions of difficulty which he must face in the economic world of today. As President Hopkins quietly points out, there has been a surfeit of argument about what the colleges should do for their students, and a dearth of plain emphasis upon what these...
...lascivious Brother Francois who had made an insane attack on the sacred virgin of the medicine man. At Madame Boul-boul's tavern, "Admiral" Delabouche and his crony play dominoes. Flore arrives and the town takes pride in its first courtesan who becomes the Administrator's mistress. The fragments fit into each other to form a crazy-quilt pattern in black and white...
...tennists in the U. S. assembled to put the finishing touches on their games. In the citified suburb of Forest Hills. L. I., groundskeepers rolled, clipped and patted the Stadium courts of the West Side Tennis Club where this week 90 players will start in what, until officials see fit to sanction an open, remains the most important U. S. tournament of the year?the Men's National Singles Championship...