Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...couple of months ago you could watch red-headed Lewis Rubenstein, '30, painting on the damp, freshly plastered walls of the entrance hall scenes from the "Neibelungenlied" and the old "Icelandic Edda". And stirring scenes they are. "Wars are waged, blood is shed, and evil grows greater . . . The giants have gathered to attack Asgard." Frey, the traitorous Loki, and Thor, with his mighty workman's hammer, battle on the bridge Bilfrost, which "is built of air and water, and is protected by red fire flaming on its edge...
...been that the university in Massachusetts would have been the most eligible seminary to have sent him to; first, because it is on a larger scale than any other; and secondly, because I believe that the habits of youth there, whether from the discipline of the school, or the greater attention of the people generally to morals and a more regular course of life, are less prone to dissipation and excess than they are at the colleges south of it, it may be asked, if this was my opinion, why I did not send him there? The answer...
...Inscribed: "Oh beneficent sun, Thou seest nothing greater than the City of Rome...
Trotskyist Eastman sees to it that his hero gets into as many scenes as possible, includes only one shot of Stalin. Far greater than its significance as Trotskyist propaganda however is the Tsar to Lenin'?, importance as one more striking testimonial to the screen's potential value as a medium for revitalizing history...
BUSMAN'S HONEYMOON - Dorothy L. Sayers-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Peter and Harriet (Gaudy Night, TIME, Feb. 24, 1936) spend their honeymoon in an ancient English farmhouse and discover smoking fireplaces, eccentric neighbors, cold-blooded murder and-a greater understanding...