Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Judgment Day (written and produced by Elmer Rice). For his material for this play Mr. Rice made no bones about going to the judicial aftermath of the fire that mysteriously gutted Berlin's Reichstag Building in February 1933. Principal figures in that fantastic trial were Defendant Marinus van der Lubbe, a young Dutchman who seemed to be in a drugged stupor; Defendant George Dimitroff, a fiery, grim-lipped Bulgarian who mocked the proceedings, badgered the prosecution; gaudy, bull-necked Prussian Premier Hermann Wilhelm Göring, who, taunted by Dimitroff, flew into a trembling, sweating fury, shrieked...
...Scene of Judgment Day is a courtroom in "a capital of Southeastern Europe." Accused of attempting the life of the Dictator-Minister-President, three alleged members of the People's Party are brought before the High Court. One is a young German who sits soddenly with hanging head, occasionally mumbling nonsense. "Has he been drugged?" one of the judges asks. Another is an uncowed, sharp-tongued individual named George Khitov (Walter Greaza), who denounces the accusation as a frame-up, the witnesses as tools of the National Party. When the beefy, ranting Minister of Culture & Enlightenment (Romaine Callender) appears...
This complete change of policy is now being put into effect in the land of Lenin, and it is high time that educators here in America should mark the fact well and be governed in judgment accordingly. The youth of our nation face great difficulties, today, and college men in particular are hard put to know how they can use their higher education to proper advantage. But in this perplexity, one thing is cortain. Any policy which tends to make the years of a man's college life easier and more pampered, is a policy, which can only make...
...alma mater. That Dartmouth did not want such reticent respect from her sons, however, became evident last June when the college published a booklet proudly describing and illustrating its new frescoes. Excerpt: "That the Orozco murals should arouse controversy was anticipated and desired. . . . Whatever may be the final judgment of time on the place of Orozco and these murals in the great tradition of art. the college generation which witnessed the creation of these frescoes had a rare and exciting privilege...
...wife by blowing in their whole savings on cotton-mill stock, made a lucky strike and took up speculation as a living. Everybody else was doing likewise. Conservative Millowner Houghton got involved in many a gilt-edged scheme. Even young Harry, who had literary ambitions, let his better judgment go hang when pretty Trix urged him, and embezzled his library's funds to get some easy money. That time he and everyone else got away with it. But 1921 was a different story: cotton slumped, stocks crashed, mills went bankrupt. Everyone had to haul in his kite. Trix...