Word: frowned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They always notice it. They always frown when they see boys living differently than they used to live; they always snort when they see men teaching things they were not taught. Their gifts to Harvard made this possible, and still they resent it. It is probably because every change makes them feel just that much less at home, and that annoys them. Then they see some classmates is the distance and they forget their annoyance. And together they all go into the Yard. Sometimes they don't even notice the legend over the gateway: "Enter to learn...
...people's taste is pretty good, Proven Pictures' president says. They go for historical pictures, clean comedy, and musicals; they frown on Westerns, G-man pictures, and violent death in any from. Their favorite comedians are the Ritzes; for sheer drama they prefer Paul Muni and Barbara Stanwyck. But Jeanette MacDonald's "Naughty Marietta" holds the record; it has come back fifteen times...
...study or his Warm Springs cottage. Seldom does anything exciting come of these meetings, for reporters realize that it is not cricket to harry the President of the U. S. with too-pointed questions, and Franklin Roosevelt knows full well how to shut down on such questions with a frown or a laugh. But because the President's responses may not be quoted directly (without his special permission), the secret minutes of those meetings have a certain fascination for the public. Last week the President released a few of the stenographic records, and retaliated on the many reporters...
...race (he is guaranteed pure Aryan), but on the technical character of the music itself. Hindemith discarded the melodious romanticism of traditional German music, defied all conventions of musical syntax, did in music what James Joyce and Gertrude Stein were doing in words. To Nazi censors, who frown on everything antiRomantic, Hindemith's music was pure anarchism...
...plain-garbed, plain-spoken Mennonites and Amishmen of Pennsylvania, the New Deal has meant a far from abundant life. Because the Amish churches frown upon written contracts, loans, gifts and joining secular organizations, the "plain people" declined to sign contracts with the AAA, or accept its benefits, although they were willing to reduce acre: age where the law required. Mennonites in industry pay Social Security taxes, but declare they will not accept Social Security pensions. Nor will they join labor unions, although they meekly allow union dues to be "checked off" their wages...