Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great people who know how to unite so beautifully and nobly a sense of discipline with the exercise of a just, legitimate and well ordered liberty. May all the sons and daughters of this North American continent, in spite of present difficulties, enjoy a condition of noble and decent human existence which is the prerequisite of a true and lasting peace in society." The Cardinal was then officially welcomed to Manhattan by energetic, 80-year-old Vicar General Monsignor Michael J. Lavelle of the New York Archdiocese, whisked uptown to St. Patrick's Cathedral to be greeted...
...rhetoric. With anatomy and physiology classes as well, he decided that he must have a manikin for classroom demonstrations. He bought the manikin himself for $600, worked off the debt by packing it behind him in his sleigh, circulating over the Massachusetts countryside- to deliver public lectures on human anatomy...
...first chapter of this harsh and hair-raising little book, Author Bruce Winton Knight, professor of economics at Dartmouth, gravely announces his argument: "Thus far in human history no formula has proved equal to the task of preventing more or less extended periods of peace." Purporting to solve that problem, How to Run a War is an ingenious pacifist tour de force, addressed to wealthy and politically powerful U. S. citizens who are "primarily responsible for American policies and opinions." As such, the book is filled with material that is likely to frighten good pacifists out of their wits...
...made to pay the cost of War. While he discounts lurid stories of wholesale destruction, Professor Knight leans to the theory that the next war, like the last, is likely to be a war of positions, fought with deadlocked mass armies, and consequently more costly in terms of human life than the last. With no concrete solution to offer, he nevertheless suggests that his theoretically powerful audience can prevent war if the desire to do so is genuine. If it does not do so, he announces with ferocious urbanity, "Sirs, here are your blue-prints," in an effort to make...
...Devil's A Sissy" at Loew's State is proof conclusive that the movies have gone a long way since Jackie Coogan in "Peck's Bad Boy." The same jolly hoodlumism and almost the same human interest variety of pathos still hold the fort, but "The Devil's A Sissy" is never the less very good drama. Freddy Bartholemew, the pampered but unspoiled child of a jaded Park Avenue millionairess divorcee, takes up a six-month residence in the tough-district home of his penniless father...