Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news from this picture is that Bette Davis is capable of taking her place in the same top rank with Howard. Their acting alone would make it imperative that the picture be recommended, but even higher praise is due when the rest of the cast is above the usual level of mediocrity among the minors...
...Robinson, and George Sterling, all of whose meeds of praise decorate the dust-wrapper. To be sure, Mr. Sterling offers one sentence which is capable of a double entendre: "There is nothing like this poem in our literature", and that sentence in its rashness is indicative of the critical level of all the other statements made by the others, none of whom was or is a critic of any consequence. As the chief American poet, of course Mr. Jeffers should know better than to bless "The Hermaphrodite", which has a superficial smoothness that some people, like Mr. Benjamin De Casseres...
...right but a franchise. . . . If this be so, then the Government, representing both the people who gain most by our present system and those who suffer most, has the right and duty to control and organize this privilege so as to raise and fortify the general level of American life...
Winter sports run riot at the Fine Arts this week, restrained only by a tenuous plot and some inconsequential German dialogue. Brilliant performances of skiing, slalom (scooting downhill along sinuous paths among obstacles), ski-joring (skiing along the level with a horse doing the pulling), bob-sled racing, and skating are crammed into this virile, carefree picture called after one of the sports "Slalom...
...Copper stocks climbed to new highs for the Roosevelt bull market when copper was upped ¼?per Ib. to 9½? by Phelps Dodge Corp. Anaconda Copper followed suit but Kennecott, presumably skeptical of the possibilities of maintaining a higher price with present demands, continued selling at the old level. ¶ Discounting fat Government orders for the next year, airplane stocks soared on the passing by the House of the record peacetime Army Appropriations Bill...