Word: intently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that Spring Song belies its gay title does not indicate that its intent is fraudulent. It is a sad, but honest anecdote, wisely acted and quietly written, in which Francine Larrimore, tending the Solomon sidewalk cigar stand with puzzled petulance, gives her best performance since Brief Moment. No less genuine than Florrie as self-respecting tenement dwellers are Ma Solomon, and Butcher Freiberg who, when asked for an explanation of the Solomons' misfortunes, voices the dry, dialectic theme of Spring Song: "When you are young, you expect everything from life. When you get older, you expect nothing...
...provide an effective outlet for the political effort and personal influence of students who are not ordinarily active in politics but who, through this club, can assist in assuring to their native Commonwealth the Constitutional guaranties of individual freedom, personal security, the right of free contract and broadminded executives, intent on true public service...
...Nazi with Realmleader Hitler. When stories of German intrigue are spun one of the chief characters is always Meissner. He is supposed to have "made" half the post-War chancellors of the Reich. When Nazis broke into the House of Socialist President Ebert's widow with intent to carry off her son to a concentration camp, she managed to get through to Meissner on the telephone and he managed to get Hindenburg to tell Hitler to let the Socialist family of Ebert alone (TIME, March 27). That was the only time that Dr. Meissner faced a dilemma in which...
...tactical reasons Dictator Stalin has slowed up for the present the drive of the Third International for "The World Revolution of the World Proletariat." He has not abandoned that great aim, pledges and repledges himself to it in addresses to the Russian people. But Britain, France and Italy, intent on nailing down the frontiers of Germany by an Eastern Locarno, want Russia in the League. They brought tremendous pressure on all Europe's little dissenters, even pulled wires in Latin America...
...particular case of aggravated assault and battery (to which "with intent to kill" should be added), neither the victim nor his tormentors fared so well. The victim has been dead and buried quite a few years but the assaulters, to the best of my knowledge, are still serving time in the Western Penitentiary...