Word: growing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Students hurrying to their 12 o'clock classes yesterday had the privilege of witnessing a miniature rodeo, staged by the combined efforts of a small black and white calf and Patrolman McGinty of the Brattle Square Station. An infant bovine, apparently imbued by the desire to "enter and grow in wisdom" escaped yesterday from a truck of the New England Meat Packing Company and immediately sought sanctuary within the Yard, entering by the Johnston Gate near Harvard Hall...
...exploitation of consumers of natural monopolies, the accumulation of stagnant surpluses, child labor and the ruthless exploitation of all labor . . . these were consumed in the fires that they themselves kindled: we must make sure that as we reconstruct our life there be no soil in which such weeds can grow again...
...Nugent, father of Cinema-Director Elliot Nugent, turns himself into the spitting image of the type of character that Cartoonist W. E. Hill draws in Among Us Mortals. Actor Nugent gets the best laugh in the play by the simple device of holding his breath. This causes him to grow red with apoplectic indignation in the third act when his wife tells his dinner guests, as he told hers the night before, about his humble origin...
...been gone too long she lets herself be seduced by the landlord's agent. Then a friend has to help her have an abortion. The agent will have nothing more to do with her. Too late she discovers her daughter is blind. As her sons grow up, the elder resents her fondness for his ne'er-do-well brother, who leaves home, takes to dubious ways. Though she has wanted her sons to marry, she objects to the efficient daughter-in-law who takes her place as mistress of the house. When she too hastily marries...
...Going Hollywood (Metro-GoldWyn-Mayer) Marion Davies stands proxy for all U. S. radio enthusiasts who grow sickly sentimental over crooners. In a girls' school she listens to the songs of one Bill Williams (Bing Crosby) which so stir her that she pursues him to Hollywood. There she finds that radio crooners are less romantic in real life than they seem on the air. Bill Williams is acting in a cinema, backed by a solemn Ernest-P. Baker (Stuart Erwin). directed by a sardonic Mr. Conroy (Ned Sparks). In the cast is Williams' temperamental mistress Lili Yvonne (Fifi...