Word: learne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Glad to learn about your refugee scholarship plan. Heartily endorse. Monsignor John A. Ryan...
...have been told that your magazine answers questions for its readers. I am interested to learn what descent may be ascribed to the parents of Shirley Temple, "the little actress." So many seem to disagree on this question. I thank...
...theatre around him does not interest Odets much. He goes to about three shows a year. He has stopped reading all playwrights but Shakespeare and Ibsen: "I have nothing to learn from American plays any more." Acting he calls "a whorish thing." But now & then he would like a good part in someone else's play, simply to retain his feel of the stage...
...School for Dictators consists entirely of dialogues, between three characters. One, Silone's mouthpiece, is an exiled Italian Socialist nicknamed Thomas the Cynic, who, using mainly Italian and German sources, is writing a political treatise on the art of deception. He believes that "the deceivers have nothing to learn from it, while the deceived have." His pupils are two Americans: Mr. W., a well-known U. S. politician and ex-jazz musician, regarded as the coming U. S. dictator, and Professor Pickup, a decayed Billy Sunday sort of fanatic, who originated "Neo-Sociology...
...capacity as head of the largest exchange in the country, Martin has taken particular interest in the Stock Exchange Institute, a school which trains men between the ages of 16 and 35 for the brokerage business. In this Wall Street School the 1200 students learn the fine points of practical economics from outstanding authorities...