Word: indifferentism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Betty Grable looks nice, sings a little, and wiggles ecstatically. Alice Faye looks tired, sings a little too much, and wriggles epileptically. Together, as the song-plugging Blane sisters, they leave the audience nearly as indifferent as leading man John Payne, who wanders through "Tin Pan Alley" as if he...
Princeton's defeat by Yale, 49-46, in the Tigers' league opener, was a mild surprise, inasmuch as Princeton had done very well in earlier contests against formidable non-league opposition in the East and Middle West. There is no thought around the league of under-estimating the Tigers, however...
Betty, almost 15, lives in a fashionable neighborhood, wears flashy clothes, is plain-looking, has an I. Q. of 129 (very bright). She does well in English, likes to write poetry; but in other studies, especially Latin, her work is indifferent. She has few dates, is self-conscious with boys...
Even the signers admit "we cannot safely be indifferent to the outcome of the present wars," showing that they apparently recognize the impli- cations of the situation but shrink from facing them squarely.
Embezzled Heaven is the story of an Austrian cook's attempt to win her salvationby"theological craftiness."She would pay for her nephew's clerical education so that, when he became a priest, his grateful prayers would win grace for her sinful soul. Indifferent to her nephew except...