Word: good
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moreover, he was not just any leading man, but the great John Barrymore-sometimes ill, sometimes tight, but always a trouper. Many a night he has rolled to the theatre, not sure of his legs, not sure of his lines, but certain that he could put on a good show of some sort. "Yep," says the doorman, "he arrives every night, dead or alive...
...honor of being named is a most agreeable surprise." A less agreeable surprise to a half-dozen other scientists who had their hopes was the Nobel committee's announcement that, on account of World War II, the other 1939 prizes were withheld - possibly until next year, probably for good...
...invented the cyclotron (spiral atom-smasher), recently completed a new 220-ton cyclotron, so far the world's biggest, most powerful. Last week he gave a progress report on this monster in operation. With a power input of only 50 kilowatts (more than enough to run a good-sized radio station), he and his crew have obtained beams of 16-million-volt heavy hydrogen particles and 32-million-volt helium particles. With the 32-million-volt beam, new radioactive substances throwing off electrified helium gas have been discovered. The machine has performed so well that Dr. Lawrence now wants...
Last week Devi Dja and her group of 20-odd mum, placid-faced little Balinese landed in Manhattan. With them was Prince Raden Waloejo, cousin of Java's reigning sultan, himself a pretty good dancer of the Wajang-Wong (ancient Balinese national epic). Also in the troupe were nine gamelan musicians with queer gongs and xylophones, a special Balinese cook to home-cook rice and fish, Devi Dja's younger (18) sister Devi Emah with her ten-months-old baby...
...notwithstanding, in Paris last week Père Jousse made ready to resume at the Sorbonne his course in rhythmocatechism. Its title: Les Rhytlimes Formulaires de I'Apocalypse d'Ezdras et le Style Oral Palestinien. Père Jousse's first enrolée was his good friend and collaborator, a tiny, wrinkled, white-haired spinster, by name Mile Gabrielle Desgrées du Lou. This lady, who must enroll as a student in order to get in the Sorbonne," does Père Jousse's gestures for him on the platform. While chanting, for example...