Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hoover himself does not indicate the means by which this understanding between the government, industrialists and labor leaders can be brought about. But others have suggested that we stop bandying glib phrases and slogans like "rugged individualism" and "that government is best which governs least"; that we can no longer afford to allow symbols like the "totalitarian state" and "Fascist regimentation" to obscure the practical imperative need for the activity of the one agency that can cushion the ruthless forces of a dynamic world
...play she is no longer real. Mr. Job reduced her to a bad caricature-foil for his heroine, Madeline Neroni. Made-line (Ina Claire), with her father who is in the Church and her brother, who is in embroidery, comes home from Italy and an unhappy marriage. Immediately bored with Barchester, she invents a limp, steals a stuffy clergyman from a stuffy blonde, acts like a younger, cuter Sanger child and, in a magnificently anticlimactic scene, puts her foolish enemies to shame. Along with all this goes a little pleasant dialog, a little minor plotting, a great deal of patronizing...
Last week the cast, which now includes only three of its charter members, gave its 1,716th performance, then celebrated at a dinner the end of Tobacco Road's fourth year. It had already run longer than any other play in Broadway's history except Abie's Irish Rose (2,532 performances); its net profits were over half a million...
...collegians are forced to waive the four year rule of inter-collegiate competition as some of the colony team have longer terms before graduation. The convicts also have an edge in experience, gained inside the courtroom upholding the negative side of a question in which the law argued the affirmative. This time, however, the prisoners will uphold the affirmative. The subject is Resolved, That the National Labor Relations Board should be empowered to enforce arbitration of all industrial disputes. The Yale News
Like Artur Schnabel, he no longer bothers to practise with any regularity. He claims he did plenty of practising in his youth to last him all his life. Mr. Hofmann's favorite avocation is inventing mechanical gadgets. Sonata Op. 53 (Waldstein) Beethoven Kreisleriana (Six movements) Schumann Polonaise in E flat minor Nocturne in B major, Op 9, No. 3 Mazurka in B flat minor Ballade in F minor Chopin Orientale, Op. 10, No. 2 Stojowski Moment Musical in F sharp minor, Op. 94, No. 3 Schubert-Godowsky Elude in C sharp minor, Op 2 Scriabin Kaleidoscope...