Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Hugh Magill of the American Federation of Investors, a pressure group with a thoroughly Tory orientation. In his younger days Father Magill was a liberal who supported the elder La Follette. When Son Roswell was born 42 years ago Father Magill was the high-school principal in Auburn, Ill...
...third of a nation" (by Arthur Arent; Living Newspaper, producer). When President Roosevelt in his second inaugural address, January 20, 1937, declared that he found in the U. S. ". . . one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, and ill-nourished," he spoke a resounding mouthful. Last week the Federal Theatre made that echoing phrase the text for the latest edition of its Living Newspaper.* Against a cross-sectional background of a four-story tenement house with crumbling stairways and dank, sunless rooms, the U. S. slum problem is forcefully dramatized. Statistics and editorial comment are dressed up with music...
...aggravated by exercise; there is no sign of organic heart disease; they disappear when coffee is withdrawn from the diet. Dr. Levy cited two cases: a doctor and a lawyer, both of whom suffered from coffee pains for years but continued to lead active lives without further ill effect when they quit drinking coffee...
...last decade, Cinemactress Joan Crawford has been hushaby lady to millions for whom dreams at prevailing box-office prices are the only escape from failure and mediocrity. Her partner in romance is usually some slick-haired reigning actor. In Mannequin, crinkly-eyed, roughhewn Spencer Tracy seems ill at ease, especially with dialogue lines like "somebody hit me with a hypo full of love...
...lock him in a sanitarium so he can recover the mental balance they have destroyed. Son Howard is a handsome, stupid, unprincipled college boy who is always borrowing money, wrecking his father's cars, and trying to lie his way out. Daughter Sara is a handsome, ill-natured poseur who becomes a Communist, falls in love with an agitator, overdraws her allowance of $1,000 a year and spends most of her time making poisonous remarks about her father. Thus, although it contains the story of Corn-plow's flight to Europe and the eventual reconciliation...