Word: length
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lived it." Author Elswyth Thane (Mrs. William Beebe) has a neat thesis which demands more than ordinary biographical skill, but readers of Young Mr. Disraeli last week agreed that she had it. Her biography of Disraeli read like a novel, and a good one. Not a full-length life, it ended with her hero's young manhood. Like a good novelist, Author Thane knew when and where to stop...
...length and difficulty of the football competitions at Harvard have long been subjected to adverse criticism from the Dean's office and the H. A.A., and a new system had to be evolved. This excellent arrangement should increase the interest of the undergraduate body in the competition and insure a large turnout this Spring...
Emotional and intuitive Little Adolf can also "talk up" to logical, cerebral Latins and to Britons whom he humbly delights to consider superior persons. Broadcasts by Orator Hitler on foreign policy are so comparatively smooth, so well-turned and of such reasonable length as to amaze many Germans and lead to rumors that some be-monocled old-school diplomat of the Wilhelmstrasse must write them. But Adolf Hitler confronted face to face by a foreigner is also different from Adolf Hitler overpowering a dazzled German. To Berlin last week, hastily summoned from Paris, hurried Paris-Midi's correspondent...
...show" Mechau returned at length to Denver, won a Guggenheim Fellowship to study the artistic and historic background of the West, and was given his first one-man show by the Denver Junior League. With his brother Vaughan, Artist Mechau is at present working on an illustrated history of the Pony Express. Frank Mechau hates to leave the house while working. "For the past four months," said he, "I never made a journey beyond the garbage...
...audience sat reverently quiet through the showing of two full-length ballets, eleven solos. Music was played by the London Symphony, conducted by Vladimir Launitz, onetime Russian aviator, who once was Pavlova's musical director. Effects on the screen were sometimes hazy. Many of the pictures had been taken in 1923, some in South America, some in Australia. But it was still possible to marvel at the dancer's incomparable grace, that ethereal quality which made it seem as if she floated through...