Word: ills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first prizes and contracts with the Metropolitan. Of the six, none sported Italian names, only one had studied in Europe. The two men were big, straight fellows-baritones. The four women-sopranos-were young, slim, uncommonly pretty, utterly un-divalike. The winners: Lyric Soprano Annamary Dickey, 25, of Decatur, Ill.; and blond, moonfaced, 29-year-old Mack Harrell, from Greenville...
Alexander Nevslcy (Mosfilm Studios) puts back into circulation famed Russian Director Sergei Eisenstein, after six unproductive years that followed his ill-starred trip to Hollywood in 1930-32. All Russian pictures are advertisements for the U.S.S.R. This one is no exception, but it shows, not the handiness of modern peasants with mowing machines, but the first faint stirrings of Russian social consciousness, circa 1242 A.D. Fortunately, for U. S. audiences, even this patriotic ferment occupies Director Eisenstein's attention only for a few minutes at the beginning of Alexander Nevsky. Thereafter he becomes intoxicated with the cinematic possibilities...
...American Banker for August 15, 1935 an article on Government bonds took issue with various policies of Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., concluded by asking whether they were due to "obstinacy, stupidity, or sheer ill advice." Secretary Morgenthau all but ordered the American Banker to send the unknown columnist, one S. F. Porter, to see him in Washington. The magazine refused in a vague letter from which all pronouns were conspicuously absent...
...army is not only melting away but our national position is doing the same, that ill bird The Times wh. daily fouls its own nest contributes powerfully to the decline of England. . . . Things are bad enough Heaven knows in the Crimea but the glowing colors in wh. every detail is painted have excited the people of this country almost to madness & have led among other things to a ministerial crisis...
...Evanston, Ill., President Robert Donohoe of the Young Business Men's Club advertised for a "large alley cat, exceptionally powerful, and able to cope with giant sewer rats." Questioned by the Humane Society, which asked him if he was planning to put on a cat-rat fight, Mr. Donohoe explained: "It's for the jail." A cat named Sergeant...