Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...everything that a Southern colonel ought to be, the cast is composed entirely of negro actors who accentuate the distinctive quality of the play. Thomas Moseley fills the difficult role of Abraham, the ill-starred hero of the piece, with credit, while the minor characters introduced as back-ground or as comic relief are so natural and at times so amusing that it is difficult to find any point in which improvement might be suggested...
...have qualified as members of the club by a strenuous training period both on the ground and up in the air. Though all of them are not licensed pilots they are considered sufficiently trained for membership...
Tutorial reading will be assigned during the Reading Period, and a knowledge of the ground covered in this way will be tested by the tutors at the opening of the second half-year. It is our intention that the tutors should introduce the needed element of elasticity in adjusting the work of their students so that each student will have a unified program with neither too much nor too little reading...
Spellbound. Imagination, seed of woe, flowers into tragedy or pathos, according to the ground it falls on. In Spellbound, it has fallen on a London shopgirl. A pathetic play is the result. Yet so artfully is this pathos accented by Actress Pauline Lord, whose specialty has long been the anguish of the inarticulate, that the play's weakness is concealed. There are moments in Spellbound when Miss Lord crosses the high road of true tragedy and makes Ethel Underwood at least a half-sister to all whose dreams have led them lost...
...Only 40% was paid in cash, the balance by monthly installments. General Motors, Mr. Raskob's firm, believed that the installment system was good. However, said he: "If we were wrong we wanted to know it. If we were on fundamentally solid economic ground we wanted to know that also. All agreed that no opinion would tend to give a greater sense of security than that of Professor Seligman...