Word: heartly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appeal to the judiciary it was hardly likely to carry much weight. The Justices of the Supreme Court have the Preamble and Article I of the Constitution already by heart. The Court long ago declared that the Preamble was only a declaration of pious hope conferring no power on the Federal Government. Furthermore, the particular subject matter, NRA, on which the President made his appeal, happened to be the one major New Deal project which no member of the Court, liberal or conservative, found constitutional. Thus the likelihood of a reversal is negligible...
Marguerite Gautier (Greta Garbo), Parisian demimondaine, breaks with her protector (Henry Daniell) when she falls in love with young Armand Duval (Robert Taylor), breaks with Duval when his father tells her she is spoiling his career, finally dies of consumption complicated by a broken heart. For modern audiences this story lacks one element: surprise. Its situations, from the one in which Armand first shows his love for Marguerite by returning to her a handkerchief which he has kept in his pocket ever since the day six months before when she dropped it in a theatre, to the one in which...
...Vatican issue an official statement of his condition. In contrast to the vague "Vatican Voices" of anonymous prelates to whom newshawks attributed contradictory stories, the statement in precise terms detailed the Pope's ailments as: "a diffuse process of arteriosclerosis, with prevalent localization in a lowering of the heart's functions and consequent disturbance of the cardiac rhythm." In what most doctors decided was an understatement of the fact that the Holy Father will probably not recover, the statement concluded: "There is reason to hope that [the] local complaints may continue gradually to improve and even be completely...
...producers) is perhaps the first indoor theatrical event ever to justify the cinematic adjectives Stupendous and Colossal. Everything about this unprecedented superspectacle is large scale. It was more than three years in the making. Its premiere, postponed ten times, finally took place one year and 15 days late. The heart-breaking difficulties which beset its promoters were scarcely less impressive than those of the Jewish people whose historic sorrows the pageant so magnificently pictures...
President Conant did well not to become involved during the muddy battle itself, particularly under the stipulations of Governor La Follette's invitation. His reply, emphasizing the difference between a professor and a president, pointing significantly to the essential problem of respect and independence, struck the heart of the whole problem. As President Conant said, "The question before the educational world and the people of your state is whether they have confidence in the Board of Regents...