Word: lovely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...While Mr. Roosevelt was slapping at his critics, Congress was taking cracks at him. The Senate again killed his old love, the proposed Florida Ship Canal. Both
About to erect a $30,000 memorial to James Upham in Washington, the Order of Jobs' Daughters of Portsmouth, Va. recently asked Colonel Moss to say that again. Job's Daughters, aged 13 to 20, "band together girls for spiritual and moral upbuilding, to teach love of country and flag . . . home, parents and elders." Just to be sure, he asked Historians Charles C. Tansill (America Goes to War), Bernard Mayo (Henry Clay) and Political Scientist W. Reed West to check up on him. That caution probably cost Patriot Upham a sumptuous monument. Last week Colonel Moss penitently announced...
...haven't absorbed too much ultra sophistication from the ancient halls of Harvard, you will enjoy "Three Smart Girls Grow Up." There is a script that is always bright and sometimes scintillates. There are some delightful scenes in the parlor where Deanna tries to straighten out her sisters' love affairs. There is some superlative humor contributed by the absent minded Charles Winninger. There is some simple, tuneful music, and there isn't much sentimentality. Above all there is a refreshing sincerity about the whole thing. All in all it makes for ideal feather-weight entertainment...
...means of overcoming his liability he has a record of overt loyalty to the New Deal. Never in public has he spoken anything but praise of the great idol of the people, Franklin Roosevelt. But those who do not love the New Deal's economic experiments do not need to be told that he is more conservative than the New Deal. He thus has a foot in both camps, Roosevelt and anti-Roosevelt. If by playing old-fashioned politics with his cards close to his necktie a man can become President in 1940, Jim Farley...
...matured during the years Dr. Buchman has been at work. For Buchmanites it has not been enough to propagate, among "key people," the doctrine of God's direct and special "guidance" of his favorites, and the advantages of living according to the four Buchmanite standards of Absolute Honesty, Love, Purity and Unselfishness. The not-quite-absolutely-honest technique has also been to involve newsworthy non-Buchmanites, simply by getting them to agree publicly that the world is in a bad way, that some-thing needs to be done...