Word: maines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main defect of The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex is that it is not tragic. Until the very end, Elizabeth's insistence that Essex can save his head merely by sending back her ring makes the drama seem as unreal as a schoolgirl's tiff, the decapitation just a bit of a royal whimsey. Partly this is due to Author Anderson's original conception, partly to the neurotic bounce with which Cinemactress Davis scratches, claws, snarls and romps her way through the repetitious love scenes, mopes and moons through her my-manic depressions...
Fortnight ago, in the fourth play of the game against Brown, Don Herring, big Princeton tackle, son of one of Princeton's football immortals, was badly hurt. A Brown blocker crashed into him, and his left knee snapped backward so violently the main blood vessel was torn. For six days doctors did what they could, finally told him they would have to amputate his leg just above the knee. "O. K.," said Don Herring, "go ahead." Next day he listened to the play-by-play account of the game in which his teammates nosed out Harvard...
...main purpose of these scholarships is to give grants of small amounts to students who cannot pay the full amount of the term bill," Douglas Mercer '40, chairman of the Council scholarship committee, said last night...
...potential voters, Mickie no longer offers such flimsy reason for election as changing the name of Harvard Square to Washington Square. Morals are still his main plank, but after last year's condemnation of the Student Union's "Cradle Will Rock," he has discovered that in their hearts Harvard men are not what they seem to be. Instead, his own voters along Mass. Avenue, forgetting the primrose pavement, have needed the watchful eye of patrolling, police cars. Already, Sullivan's stitch-in-time has "put a stop to 'mashers' in automobiles accosting women. Any mother, wife or grown daughter...
...main burden of enforcing the Act is placed upon the President. He it is who must define the areas of combat from which our ships are to be excluded, and declare what countries are belligerents. The remaining details fall in the province of the State Department. it is right that these duties should be placed in the Executive branch of the government, for that is its function. However, the record of this, branch during the past few months indicates that it will bear close watching...