Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the picture was intended for mass consumption the comedy is naturally of that level. The constant hammering of a joke does not, however, seem absolutely necessary. The sequences depicting life in a newspaper office are, as usual, somewhat strange. But this is a minor point, for one of the film is done in a serious vein; and the mad antics of city editor Ameche and star reporter Power only add to the zest of the thing...
Nothing is unusual about the seeming plethora of earthquakes throughout the United States recently, according to L. Don Leet, director of the University's Seismograph Station at Harvard, Mass. Although the recent ramblings have achieved wide newspaper attention, he said, there are actually several thousand earthquakes yearly throughout the world...
Most of the volumes shown are from the collection of Amy Lowell, which makes up the mass of the books in the Poetry Room, and the exhibition will be on until the end of next week...
Eight years ago a boy named Brevoort Hood was expelled by Tabor Academy for smoking within the town limits of Marion, Mass. His father, Charles C. Hood of Ridgewood, N. J. not only denied that Brevoort had smoked but, having paid $1,200 for his son's tuition that year, he felt that since the boy was sent home in March he should get some money back. Tabor Academy explained that Father Hood had agreed to forfeit whatever money he had paid Tabor in the event his son should for any reason "sever his connection" with the school before...
This was the first mass murder ever effected directly by a chemical agent in war.* The Germans made a 3½-mile breakthrough, would have penetrated much more decisively had the German high command had more confidence in their new weapon before it was tried...