Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard Club of Chicago: Robert L. Fisher, of Cantrall, II.; Richard E. Johnson, of Winnetka, Ill.; Raymond M. Notov, of Chicago; and Donald J. Patton, of Elmhurst, Ill...
...Stanford, the University of California, U.C.L.A., and the University of Southern California the name of Harvard is a symbol of smugness. And to Dartmouth--which appears to their Cambridge brothers in study as a formidable part of the one-third of our nation which is "ill-clad, ill-fed, ill-housed"--Harvard represents the high horse of stuffiness...
Knickerbocker Holiday (book and lyrics by Maxwell Anderson: music by Kurt Weill; produced by the Playwrights' Co.) represents an ill-balanced musicomedy collaboration, suggests the most fleet- footed girl at a prom dancing with a corpulent middle-aged professor who has hopefully taken a few lessons from Arthur Murray. To the story of Xieuw Amsterdam in the days of peg-legged Pieter Stuyvesant. the famed author of Mary of Scotland and Winter set has contributed a thick Dutch cheese of a book, while Composer Weill (Johnny Johnson) has filled Knickerbocker Holiday with gay, spirited, catchy tunes...
...cinema struggle to fit such curiosities into a plausible narrative always includes Jean Hersholt, as Dr. Luke, and John Qualen in a somewhat libelous interpretation of the squintuplets' father. Five of a Kind winds this amorphous group into a tangled web of rivalry and romance between two ill-mannered newspaper and radio commentators (Claire Trevor and Cesar Romero). Best shot: all five Dionnes sneering at kindly Actor Hersholt...
Case History (by Louis S. Bardoly; produced by James Troup) was written by a doctor, produced with the backing of a dozen of his colleagues, and deals with a medical theme. It tells of a fervent Christian Scientist who, when her step-daughter becomes ill, employs a Christian Science healer and will not call in a doctor until it is too late...