Word: hatter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "Why, you might just as well say that 'I see what I eat' is the same thing as 'I eat what...
...cumbrous play itself. When Heartbreak House was presented last week under Welles's direction and with himself in the leading role of 88-year-old Captain Shotover, even the dottiest Mercury fan could not help having qualms. For this more-than-three-hours-long,* brilliant Mad-Hatter symposium on modern life is among the most difficult of Shaw's major dramas: garrulous, subterranean, exhaustive. But, skirting a forest of unintelligibility on the one side, and a swamp of tediousness on the other, Welles has cut a clean if slightly winding road, has achieved a capital production...
...first place, Summer School offers an opportunity to relieve schedule over-crowding; one full course towards a degree can be passed off by taking two courses in Summer School. This sounds like the arithmetic of the Mad Hatter, but Summer School courses are much less weighty. The gaps in a man's knowledge of his field, often in branches which are not ordinarily covered by the regular courses, can be filled. Last minute tutorial cramming for Divisionals can be avoided by covering a period which has been neglected. Thirdly, many courses given in alternate years, which cannot be taken because...
...hours after handsome Anthony Eden resigned as Britain's Foreign Secretary, Glasgow haberdashers marked down the Eden-style black Homburg from ?1 to four shillings. In London's West End, however, it still held its own. "It has too much character," said one Mayfair hatter, "to be blown off by a political breeze...
...Author cannot be dismissed as an intemperate tyro. A doctor himself, his writing, until July 1930, was confined to medical subjects (Dust-Inhalation by Haematite Miners, First Aid in Coal Mines); he has practiced in South Wales, has been down more than 500 coal mines. His first novel (Hatter's Castle; TIME, July 20. 1931), a gloomy lengthy melodrama, was a surprise best seller. In neither of his professions has Dr. Cronin paid much attention to the rules. To the lay reader the "cut-shop" (medical jargon ) in The Citadel may seem tedious and overdone: but to many...