Word: lamentable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perfectly logical process of reason, the next and last division of the book is entitled, "Lamentations." The chief lament is the talking picture. Like many of the modern critics of the legitimate stage, Mr. Nathan chooses to turn up his nose and snort rather than pay any attention to the potentialities peculiar to the screen. He writes, "What the phonograph is to the opera, the lithograph to painting, the plaster of paris cast to sculpture and a doll's house to architecture, the talkie will ever continue to be to the drama." The chief, and only explicable objection...
Died. Jacob Koppel Sandier, 74, composer of Eili, Eili, famed Jewish lament (often thought to be an old folk-song), oldtime choirmaster and musician in East Side Manhattan theatres; in Brooklyn, N. Y. Composed in 1896 for a Yiddish play, the song attained great popularity, but Mr. Sandier did not copyright it until 1919, never received more than a tithe of his rightful royalties...
Commerce?Robert Patterson Lament of Illinois...
...White House tea two years ago caused a ruction-Representative Oscar De Priest, Chicago Negro, shook hands with the President, retired with Mrs. De Priest to the East Room, leaving to the other guests the option of speaking to or ignoring them. Mrs. De Priest was gratified when Secretary Lament's wife, a fellow Chicagoan, stopped to chat. Speaker Longworth came over, slapped Mr. De Priest on the back, shook his hand...
...nine years paid its Widener Library scrubwomen but 35¢ an hour, whereas the legal minimum wage was 37¢. The Treasurer of Harvard University appealed to the State Legislature, pleading that the women were given a 20-minute rest period, not docked for it. Last March, led by Corliss Lament, son of Morgan Partner Thomas William Lament, 52 Harvard alumni wrote an open letter to the University, asking that the women be paid 2¢ per hour back wages over the whole period. Harvard refused. Alumnus Lamont then organized the Harvard Scrubwomen Fund, raised $3,880, portioned it out last Christmas...