Word: lovely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ladies and gentlemen," Rosa Weber is supposed to have announced, "I am a true German. I love Adolf Hitler. If you don't stop talking against him, I will stop serving the dinner right...
...less inclusive Industrial Association of San Francisco, long feared and hated by Labor. At the council's head will be hardheaded Almon E. Roth, now president of the Pacific Coast Waterfront Employers Association, who like many another Coast employer has learned to deal with but not to love organized labor...
...Monthly (high-Episcopal) editorially charged that the Groups were trying to make it appear that Bishop Tucker and the Archbishop of Canterbury "esteemed the Groups as highly as the enclosed newspaper did (of which there is no evidence)." One tenet of Buchmanism is "Absolute Honesty" (along with Absolute Purity, Love, Unselfishness). Cracked the Monthly: "We do not for a moment suppose that Dr. Tucker was a party to this devious and dubious business, nor the Archbishop either; but it does go to show what happens to 'absolute honesty' in an advertising...
...opening half, set in the Paris that leads to the revolution of 1848, is a compelling story. The many sided and fascinating character of Henrlette opens out and blossoms as she faces the trials of working for a due with whom she is in love and a duchesse whose complete lack of reason and understanding at times make the Praslin mansions mad-houses. Added to this is a story that you cannot set down; every scene, every conversation leads with maddening deliberation to the inevitable crisis...
...audience is rewarded, however, for in the nonsensical play-within-a-play which takes up the remaining two acts there is genuine homer. This is supplied by deft touches, ranging from Eleanore Bell's exclamation, "Oh, Ecthtathy of blithe!" through the able clowning of Agnes Love to the finale in which Eleasnor Spencer and Jonas N. Mulcloud of white balloons to the strains of "I Married an Angel...