Word: fosterers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guiding purpose of the Club is to foster understanding of all things German through fuller knowledge of the language, literature, culture, and oustoms, with the hope of being a worthy adjust of the more formal course studies and a means of calling up reminiscences to those who have traveled in Germany and of sharpening anticipation in those who have...
...world's greatest tragedies. Aeschylus, Poe and Coleridge are only a few of those who underwent rigorous military training, thus it secus as though a sound mind and a sound body must go together to produce great works. Their failures began when Coleridge took to narcotics, when Stephen Foster took to drink, or when Marc Antony took to women...
Flavored with young love and London fog, furnished with an assortment of sweatered rogues talking Cockney out the sides of their mouths, the plot capers at the Bishop's gaitered heels as he discovers that the crime was planned by Hester (Maureen O'Sullivan) and Donald (Norman Foster) to "get back the stolen papers." Walter Connolly made a great success as the Bishop in the Broadway version of Frederic Jackson's play last winter, but it is hard to believe that anyone could be as good as Edmund Gwenn is in this adaptation. He is even convincing when his Episcopalian...
...went on to say, quoting a seventeenth century writer, that a liberal education, which the Graduate School attempts to foster, is one in which every man is enabled to follow his own natural bent in the way of research...
Producer John Considine violated another taboo by building the story around a tap dancer, Eleanor Powell, instead of the usual soprano. Miss Powell plays the part of Irene Foster, an upState girl who goes to Manhattan to get a job with Bob Gordon (Robert Taylor), a musical comedy producer who was her high-school sweetheart. Gordon's enemy, Columnist Bert Keeler (Jack Benny), has invented a French actress, La Belle Arlette. To confuse Gordon, who refuses to give her a job, Irene steps into the fictitious identity. The rest of her stepping, which occupies considerable footage, confirms her status...