Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rest of his picturesque competitors, Uncle Carl Laemmle was a brilliant showman. What other qualifications he had to run a major cinema company sometimes seemed mysterious. But for a long time none was necessary. Nepotism, always prevalent in Hollywood, was a fixed tradition at Universal City. On frequent trips to his birth place, Carl Laemmle usually returned with relatives who were promptly placed on Universal's payroll. Many were incompetents. None was discharged. The peak of Universal nepotism came in 1929. Carl Laemmle made his son, Carl Jr., general manager of the company, in honor of Junior...
This has been a quiet week after the excitement of the Lents. Even the weather, while remaining uniformly unpleasant, has provided no vagaries singular enough to write about. Parties are frequent and often Hilarious, but they can hardly be of international interest. Parties are being made up to go to all parts of Europe during next vacation, which so suddenly seems almost upon us. An epidemic of German measles is sweeping the University and making the best of friends frightened to converse with each other at less than two yards range. It is also wreaking havoc in the various casts...
Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman have a following second only to Martha Graham's. Essentially they have the same credo, the same vigorous pace, the same inner urge to let the body speak for itself. Average theatre audiences can appreciate a Humphrey-Weidman recital, see frequent glimmers of a plot that can be translated into words. Though Martha Graham is intent on typifying the U. S. spirit, she is more consistently abstract. Her face is like a mask when she dances. For Frontiers her principal gesture is to raise one leg, rest it on a fence...
...colonel, he blew off the lid in 1925 by charging the War and Navy Departments with "almost treasonable'' administration, used the same words and others when the dirigible Shenandoah crashed. Court-martialed and suspended, he resigned, retired to his Virginia estate, from which he emerged at frequent intervals to damn his onetime superiors with charges of inefficiency and incompetence, bellow louder than ever for the creation of a separate Air Department...
...bone formations which press upon nerves, relieves spasms in the neck muscles and enables patients to walk with their heads held nimbly up. Too orthodox and young a doctor to criticize his medical colleagues forthrightly, Dr. Hantlig sassed them obliquely: "Such cases [of pain in the neck] are frequent and they represent in all probability a substantial proportion of the patients who migrate to chiropractors and others after they have been baked at length for arthritis of the shoulder. . . . Some of the commonly called neuritis in elderly people is probably on this basis. The recognition of these borderline cases which...