Word: insists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...film actress (Lenore Ulric). He makes a date with her for the evening, borrows Woodrow Wilson's top hat, Mussolini's sponge-bag trousers and with some advice given by Landru, the wife-murderer, sets off to the assignation. Some French generals hear of the resurrection, insist that the Little Corporal make all Europe French. After a visit to a disarmament conference, a few experiences with radios and telephones, Napoleon goes back to the wax works in disgust. All this is handled with the worst direction, the most inexpert acting (including that of Miss Ulric) and the shabbiest...
...this: That American undergraduates, even Harvard undergraduates, are taught not to think, but to accumulate card catalogues. It would be stupid to maintain that no advance had been made, and to overlook the growth of tutorial and general examination systems. But it would be even more stupid to insist that all is well. It is reasonably obvious that the cornerstone of, for example, a Harvard man's A.B. resembles very closely a collection of fifteen course grades; and it is certainly obvious to observers that those grades are acquired not through the medium of substantial thought, but through a memorization...
...high art of being legal. But it is not their consecration to be philosophers, and perhaps that is why, with the exception of Holmes, Brandeis, and Cardozo, the Court is fifty years behindhand in its political philosophy. The Roscoe Pound of a golden prime was wont to insist that law was in really social engineering; now he talks ponderously of the common courts and of their law which must chiefly enforce our security. When the arch-apostle of social jurisprudence has left his banner, what moulding, horrible depths of legalism must the Supreme Court contain, and what small hope...
...salty old Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya, is the notoriously high cost of supporting a Habsburg Court. Thousands of Hungarian Legitimists would like to restore "Little Otto," 20-year-old son of their late King Karl, but they know the extravagance of his regal mother Zita, fear she would insist that the State lavishly support dozens of penniless Habsburg archdukes. Last week in ancient Debrecsen, famed today for its tobacco-pipes, sausages and soap, Legitimists staged a monster pro-Otto rally several times disturbed by anti-Otto students who shouted "Long Live Horthy...
While this method of bookkeeping is open to criticism, there is no doubt that Lew Douglas some day will be able to keep the normal budget from being increased by protesting against any transfers back to the operating budget of items that the public will insist shall not be continued. If the people, for example, demand the abolition of the emergency budget, there will be a scramble to get in once more on the regular budget. Since the latter will have been brought to a low point during the depression and since a demand for tax reduction is inevitable...