Word: maye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hall admits that the reasons for one person's specific fear of snakes, another's of high places, another's of germs may well be due to environmental conditioning. But he believes that such conditioning simply controls the direction of emotional response, that the basic amount of emotionality is inherited. The researches which have led him to this opinion have been conducted by him and his co-workers on rats...
...adroitly prefaced with sequences showing Vernon Castle teaching his new wife his routine and then failing utterly to impress Fields; the genesis of the tip-toe Castle Walk, designed not to disturb the occupants of the Paris apartment below their own; and their meeting with Maggie Sutton (Edna May Oliver), who gets them their first engagement in return for a dinner...
...monument which has been leveled to the dust since Berenice Abbott photographed it in May 1938, is the almost Babylonian Old Post Office, built in 1869-78 after a fantastic architectural competition from which the Government chose not one but 15 winning designs, used the best features of all 15. Art project researchers and Writer Elizabeth McCausland collaborated on furnishing such factual tid-bits for each of the 97 pictures. Publisher and printer apparently collaborated not enough, allowing some reproductions to suffer from dandruff in the blacks...
Silver miners, now prospering at the nation's expense, may consider such speculation academic. But last week none other than Chairman Marriner Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board attacked the Silver-Purchase program from an angle which might well give the industry pause. Said he to a Senate committee...
...many bad books without me trying to turn out two a year." But she is working on a novel, Promised Lands, wants to write four books, one for each section of the U. S. If they live up to Pale Horse, Pale Rider, the literary colony of Baton Rouge may turn out to be far more durable and important than most of Huey Long's works...