Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the most conservative and reactionary elements on the campus find it expedient to form a political organization, we may rest assured that the ivory tower no longer stands. The mere existence of such an organization, coupled with the world wide spread of fascism, has shown Harvard students that traditional political inactivity no longer signifies a tacit faith in ever-widening American democracy. Democracy today is threatened by dynamic and fast-working enemies, and democracy can only be preserved by political action on the part of its adherents. Thus the great mass of unaffiliated Harvard students are registering a vote...
...said to be ready to declare "outlawed"the Chinese Generalis simo, famed Chiang Kaishek, who mean while last week himself held a supreme Chinese conference on strategy. To replace "Outlaw Chiang," the Japanese Government proposed to set up a new central Chinese Government, not another venal gang of mere puppets, such as those already established at Peking and Nanking, but a State headed by the Scholar Marshal, famed Wu Pei-fu. Marshal Wu had a long and brilliant military career under the Manchu Dynasty, thus might see eye-to-eye with a Japanese scheme to restore as Emperor of China...
...real drama propels Rice's story. Only flag-draped speeches and Fourth-of-July sentiments drift across the stage. Ghosts do the work, all too picturesquely, that cries out for living men. At its worst, the play is mere drivel. When the final curtain comes down on the family drinking a toast, it seems like the conclusion of a homemade English boarding-school playlet. When Moll Flanders (Isobel Elsom) rustles archly across the stage in her duchessy silks, mouthing fancy, ye-old-tea-shoppe truisms, she brings to mind Penrod and his friends acting out Mrs. Lora Rewbush...
More distinguished than any of her performances thus far as a mere working actress was Paulette Goddard's farewell performance as a phantom actress. Last winter, after breaking one of her nails, which were almost an inch long, she went about Palm Beach with her finger in a sling...
...uncertainty over the new Congress, worry over international squabbles, timidity engendered by the start of the "opoly" hearings. More tangible is the point that the Government's spending, even though operating at a level $400,000,000 greater than last year, is again proving to be a mere teaser. All this greatly amused Germany's Reichsbank Governor Dr. Hjalmar Schacht. With German industrial production up 100% in five years, he took occasion in a Berlin speech to praise a "directed economy," crack that Germany had not needed to "finance consumption through the arbitrary scattering of money...