Word: longingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three years ago, after a long career of dodging immigration officials and rubber-checking rich and high-born speak-easy acquaintances, Mike's luck ran out. After a short spell in jail, he skipped Manhattan...
...most cine-maulers. What keeps him punching is a firm notion that falling short of the championship in any endeavor is the equivalent of a complete and final washout. For ten years of marriage he is a father who comes home now & then in the infrequent intervals of his long, confident barnstorming career in pursuit of the champion. By the time his hard-boiled-ego philosophy takes the count in a riproaring, ten-round climax (the film's only fight scene), he has squandered his wife's regard, has never won his son's. In line with...
...Britannic Cinemactor C. Aubrey Smith, and why not? His gruff charm, his unwavering personification of the stiff upper lip that always dresses for dinner, especially among savages, has made him an effective one-man propaganda bureau for the British virtues. The Sun Never Sets is another reminder that, as long as C. Aubrey Smith, O. B. E., remains above the horizon, the Union Jack will continue to fly at full staff over Hollywood. His main service in this cinema is to hike young John Randolph (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) out of a cankerous apathy toward the imperial...
...spectacular mile-long parade of Harvard alumni to the Stadium, led by the twenty-fifth reunion class, will start at 1:30 p.m. Most of the representatives of the fifty classes which have made plans for reunions in Class Day week will be in this parade, the classes which are twenty, fifteen, ten, six, and three years out of college customarily wearing the unique costumes which they have adopted...
...universities, President Conant said, "the traditional wisdom of the past meets the flood tides of the moment. From their cross-currents flow new ideas, a few of which may live to enrich a later generation." Since the work of scholars can only be judged by their "long-run significance," he remarked that "they may be permitted to interpose at times a caveat to all who would regard the imperious demands of the present as sure guides for the future...