Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shoulders alone must fall the blame for the misery that awaits Italy, and for the subsequent misery in Europe. Yet he has been quite consistent. Time and again since his advent to power, he has preached militarism to his people. We westerners dismissed these warlike utterances as mere sabre-rattling for mass consumption. We will soon pay for refusing to face the facts...
That is not like him. These walls have sheltered him through many a cold night; for a mere nothing too. They understand each other. Cold at times, yes; but then again the sun rises to the old Tower first before lighting the world below. And that old chair is the Vagabond's true friend and was his father's father's friend. Live in a House and have the maid change and clean and handle the furniture at will? Friends need a friend's care. The Vagabond stays! And this coat: give up a garment which has served so well...
...month will go to Canada as that Dominion's Governor-General (TIME, Aug. 19). This high-placed connection made it possible for the British film industry to improve notably upon Hollywood methods of ballyhoo. The premiere of The Thirty-Nine Steps in London was preceded, not by a mere broadcast, but by a Gaumont-British banquet at which the guests of honor were Lord Tweedsmuir, Home Secretary Sir John Simon, Minister for Air Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister and their ladies...
...language of its own, in which a prison is a college, a horse is a beetle, an I. O. U. a marker, a child a punk. And in the lawless cosmos of this oldtime Hearst sportswriter, fictionist and cinema scenarist, criminals are regarded as diverting eccentrics; slaughter, a mere irrelevancy and the underworld, a sort of jocular never-never land. With Howard Lindsay, Depression's most prosperous collaborator (She Loves Me Not, Anything Goes), Writer Runyon has in A Slight Case of Murder made his legitimate theatrical debut by telling a monstrous tale of Saratoga and the high...
...Davis write a play, offered to back it. Result was The Ladder which opened on Broadway in October 1926. Edgar Davis produced it partly because he believed in its theme of reincarnation but chiefly because he wanted to help his friend. Critics lambasted the play, audiences dwindled to a mere handful. This inauspicious beginning cheered Backer Davis who remembered the sequel to his earlier failure. But The Ladder was never a success. After paying its expenses for two years, during which the public was admitted free for eight months, Backer Davis finally came to his senses, stopped the play...