Word: isn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...power quite dares to ignore it. They wage only undeclared wars-and at least the piece of parchment is inviolate. . . . No more withdrawal of ambassadors, no more neat little ultimatums expiring at midnight. Instead, calculated or swift attack. Instead, wars that aren't called wars, and peace that isn't peace. . . . There have been three undeclared wars since the year 1935 [Ethiopia, Spain, China...
Nothing Sacred (David O. Selznick) is a spirited little comedy about a girl who is slowly dying of radium poisoning. It is a comedy because Hazel Flagg (Carole Lombard) and Dr. Downer (Charles Winninger), her Warsaw, Vt. physician, know that she isn't really dying at all. But by the time Downer finds he has made a mistake in his diagnosis, the story about Hazel has appeared in the New York Morning Star. Reporter Wally Cook (Fredric March) takes her away from Warsaw. He is in trouble with his managing editor (Walter Connolly) and Hazel is his peace offering...
...page volume was crowded with characteristic Gertrude Stein incoherencies, lucid passages about herself and Miss Toklas. malicious portraits of other celebrities, scrambled philosophical observations, comments on history, drunks, dogs,, revolutions, writing, painting, genius, the Stein family, the U. S. landscape-and, above all, "about is money money or isn't money money...
...players who voted said that they made no overtures, did not "dicker" concerning terms of accepting post season game. Frank Souchak, star end, said, "We simply don't want to play the game--isn't that enough...
...advise that practice as a steady diet," Swett cautioned, "but it shows how that traditional Harvard indifference isn't so strong as is commonly believed...