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Word: interpretive (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Story which Professor Lake will interpret this morning at 12 in the Fogg Large Room has to do with Solomon, the wise king of Israel, and his clever alliances with Hiram, king of Tyre, one "filled with wisdom and understanding and cunning to work...in brass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/5/1935 | See Source »

...decisive stand of Professor Mather of Harvard against the enforcement of the stupid and repressive Teachers' Oath Law of Massachusetts. In refusing to sign an oath of allegiance as a teacher he has refused to lay himself at the mercy of all narrow minded chauvinists who might choose to interpret utterances of his as unpatriotic. To suppose that anything particularly subversive or radical might invade the teachings of a professor of geology, which is the position Dr. Mather holds at Harvard, is, to begin with, ridiculous. But it is a matter of some importance that the very questionable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOOD FOR MATHER | 10/9/1935 | See Source »

...Macbeth which follows Othello, Leslie Howard in Hamlet, the Lunts in The Taming of the Shrew,* Katharine Cornell again in Romeo & Juliet. Such able actors and their enterprising producers are currently creating something of a Shakespeare revival and proving that senescence is no proper criterion of ability to interpret the Bard that his plays are not only fine literature which can be declaimed with distinction but meaty melodramas which can be acted with vitality. Miss Cornell's glowing performance last season showed her audiences not only a new Juliet but virtually a new play. Few months before he appeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Another Othello | 10/7/1935 | See Source »

...invaluable in thwarting the bankers and bringing the course of true love to a satisfactory conclusion. As has already been demonstrated on the screen (Little Miss Marker, Lady for a Day), the more involved a Runyon character is written, the harder it is to act. Actor Harrington seems to interpret Marco not so much as a droll picaroon but as a bumbling slob. But as Mike, Actor Sweeney is a soft-spoken Runyon killer of the first order. If A Slight Case of Murder outlasts Three Men on a Horse, its aging kinsman in the theatre next door, it will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Sep. 23, 1935 | 9/23/1935 | See Source »

This punch was pulled by telling Washington correspondents at the State Department not to interpret the Bullitt note's strong language as meaning that President Roosevelt means to sever U. S.-Soviet relations. Its meaning last week seemed to be that the Administration, whether or not it was ever privately fooled by the Litvinoff pledge, does not choose to be fooled publicly any longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: An Ultimatum, Almost | 9/2/1935 | See Source »

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