Word: inferiors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ever before. In the season just closing, exhibitors had heard far too often the ugly noises made by disapproving audiences; their pocketbooks were feeling pinched. Some exhibitors thought the trouble lay with stars who seemed to be "boxoffice poison" (TIME, May 16). Most of them knew the real trouble: inferior pictures. Meanwhile the Government has cast a quizzical eye over Hollywood's trade practices. While film circles last week rumored that the $2,000,000,000 cinema industry was slated for official arraignment, a Hollywood lobby in Washington fought to prevent the Neely bill, already passed by the Senate...
Laurence Housman's latest memoir of his late brother contains a brief (104-page), eminently unsatisfactory biographical note, whose tantalizing omissions are half discretion, half plain lack of knowledge; a few unpublished letters; 31 poems, their general level far inferior to Housman's sensibly strict standard; and the best Housman parody (by Hugh Kingsmill) extant...
TIME, March 21 ... "The California Supreme Court handed down a verdict. . . ." Ho! Ho! Only juries arrive at verdicts. Supreme courts reach decisions, then affirm, modify or reverse judgments of inferior courts, except in such cases in which they have original jurisdiction; utilize juries at no stage in their procedure and at no time "hand down verdicts." IRVING HILL Editor...
...Department last year spent $124,500-$96,000 over its appropriation for this purpose-on gunpowder used in salutes to the President and other dignitaries. Paring expenses, the Department last week announced that official salutes henceforth would be fired by inferior powder, thus cutting the cost of a 21-gun salute from $62.37 to $28.35. With cheap powder, according to War Department officials, noise made by salutes will be not "Boom" but "Swoosh...
...rightly suggests that the absence of money compels hundreds of brilliant students to abandon study while the possession of money enables numerous inferior students to decorate colleges and universities...