Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...note the term) in right relationships to one another. Time-thinking immediately asks-how long will these men and forces stay where you have placed them, how long will the relationship last? For while everybody exists in space, nobody lives in space." To our TIME-thinking magazine-a long life and a merry one. LESTER LEAKE RILEY Douglaston...
...knitting episodes of a novel in a way that will reduce or eliminate, for picture purposes, the chapters introduced to show the passage of time, is emphasized in Edna Ferber's romance of Mississippi minstrels because her story touches three generations of show people and includes the life of one of them from childhood to maturity. This was not the only problem that confronted Producer Carl Laemmle when, having bought the cinema rights to Miss Ferber's book, he bought also the rights to the musical comedy that Florenz Ziegfeld had made out of it. Somehow the stretched...
...Czech Surgeon-Playwright Frantisek Langer is the last production of the eleventh Theatre Guild season. It is a success story in the mid-European idiom. Alik is the silent, dawdling son of a millionaire. All that he subsequently becomes, his redemption from a life of complete inertia, he owes to a girl, Susi. Naturally, since Alik is Continental, Susi is not his wife. Possessing the shrewdness of the slums, she manages, when Alik's father ousts her from Alik's modernistic chambers, to take Alik away with her, to make him work. Together they found a model dairy...
Report of further experiments to prove his bipolar theory of life came from Cleveland's Dr. George Washington Crile. He considers that every living cell is a tiny electrical cell, that the body is a battery with the brain the positive pole and the liver the negative pole (TIME, Aug. 30. 1926). Last week he reported that he had found that every living cell has a definite electrical potential, or tension; that as that potential decreases the cell becomes enfeebled until it dies. When an electric current with a potential opposite to that of a cell is passed through...
...born for fighting, capable of fighting throughout all their long or short lives. They made the four years of the Confederacy possible. Then they too vanished." The scene set, Hergesheimer silhouettes against it nine representative actors: ". . . the eloquent Mr. Yancey; Varina Howell who loved Jefferson Davis all her life; Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard, cast in an obligation of honor dark and ringing like bronze; Albert Sidney Johnston in the loneliness of early Texas; Captain Maffitt driving precarious steamboats, heavy with cotton, and priceless with morphia and powder and gold, into the blockaded night; Nathan Forrest charging at the head...