Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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James A. Farley: "In my humble judgment President Roosevelt will carry every State in the nation except Maine and Vermont. I sincerely believe this...
...underneath the circus arua, the college has felt the grip of both national and local politics. In a land of 120,000,000, many millions are bound to vote on impression--snap judgment. Other millions, more mature, vote on a combination of prejudice and reason. It cannot be denied that men, trained to think and observe while in the universities, will later turn out to be the thinking voters of the country. Habits of reason and logic formed in college are not lost in later life, but rather tend to influence the owner to careful and restrained opinion in place...
...continue to write books with the greatest authority on the World Court than to sit on it as a Justice. His election, hailed as democratic, also marked an ebb in the Court's prestige to a level at which bigwig statesmen are not so anxious to sit in judgment at The Hague as they once were...
...Hamlet. True to tradition, play-reviewers threw down their programs, rushed to their form books to weigh Mr. Gielgud's worth against every Hamlet from Barrymore, Forbes-Robertson and Irving to Booth and Burbadge. Consensus seemed to be that next month, when the reviewers sit in judgment on Leslie Howard's portrayal of the gloomy Dane, the name of Gielgud will be added to the list of notable comparative Hamlets...
...first production effort of shrewd, satchel-faced Sam Marx, erstwhile MGM story editor, super-supervised by Lucien Hubbard. Why such a product should call for twin entrepreneurs remains mysterious, since The Longest Night is designed rather for the Saturday morning diversion of schoolchildren than for the august judgment of the cognoscenti. It is a reasonably brisk embodiment of what neighborhood houses expect from a murder in a department store, including fun in the firearms department, wax dummies that come alive and slap policemen on the shoulder, pistol shots from a secret elevator, a kleptomaniac (Etienne Girardot), archery practice...