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Word: latters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...movies to learn anything, least of all in history. Therefore, if a show is good entertainment, it is little short of pedantry to inquire into its authenticity. "The Gorgeous Hussy" may be the acme of historical precision, or it may be almost pure fiction. The latter possibility is, of course, the more likely. But 90% of the audience, including the Crimson Moviegoer, don't care, and 99%, again including said reviewer, don't know...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/13/1936 | See Source »

...There are two kinds of dictators-the chieftain type and the medicine man type. Hitler is the latter. He is a medium. German policy is not made; it is revealed through Hitler. He is the mouthpiece of the gods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Scientist on Dictators | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...hundred dollars proffered by Mr. David Dubinsky from the International Ladies Garment Union, the Daily Princetonian has compared their University's predicament with Harvard's Hanfstaengl case. The facts appear to be that Mr. Dubinsky offered the money to replace an award of Mr. Martin W. Littleton, which the latter decided to revoke for reasons of political prejudice. But, because of the value of a conservative reputation at a time when it is conducting an endowment drive, Princeton is loth to accept money from so dangerous a sources as the International Union. Yet the principle of turning down ready cash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DILEMMA AT PRINCETON | 11/7/1936 | See Source »

Many of the others are freight elevators, or else they are in buildings where they get little use. An example of the latter kind is the one in the Indoor Athletic Building, the location of which is known but to a few. The elevator in Lehman Hall, too, manages more or less successfully to look like a closet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elevators of All Kinds to Bedevil All Who Would Travel Vertically at Ease | 11/6/1936 | See Source »

...Miss Loy, he sues the paper for $5,000,000 to be annexed to his other $50,000,000. Mr. Powell is called upon by Mr. Tracy to mend things, and his strategy involves a nominal marriage with Spencer's longsuffering but not over-patient girl, Miss Harlow. The latter, utterly baffled by William's willingness to let the marriage stay nominal, obeys the cinematic law of things, and decides that she doesn't want it to stay nominal. But William loves Myrnaz, and Myrna loves Bill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

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