Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...failure of "Room Service" to click well is a fair warning to producers that a good play is one thing, and a good screen reproduction of the same play another. Nothing that Hollywood has purchased from Broadway has succeeded in being a thing of real merit, with the possible exceptions of "The Petrified Forest" and "You Can't Take It With...
Tackles who have shown merit are Hammy Wood, Ted Tewksbury, Al Jenkins, and Arnold Gale. The collections of guards shows two converted ends Gus Soule and Charlie Perkins, while Tudor Gardiner, Tom Lacey, Charlio Snyder, Edwards, and Toomey, who have been competing for the post already have shown that the jayvees can count on a strong center of the line. Especially is this so with centers of such near varsity material as Danny Cheever, and Tom Grover, but there are still other men, Hall, Ernie Miller, and Duff that have made the competition tough for them...
...whom Modernist William Wilson Wurster's graceful patio house out-pointed Traditionalist H. Roy Kelley's "California Colonial." A walkaway for the moderns was provided by Frank Lloyd Wright's design for the Blackbourn family of Minneapolis (income $5,000 to $6,000), which reduced the merit of Royal Barry Wills's design to that of a safe investment. For the Smiths of Wyncote, Pa. (income $10,000 to $12,000), Aymar Embury's spacious Colonial house appeared as dignified as all get-out, Harrison & Fouilhoux's severely glass-walled house as daring...
From twelve average-and-better mystery stories last month, the following stood out. In order of merit...
...President signed executive orders making about 130,000 more employes of the Government eligible for the Civil Service and permanent tenure of their jobs, if they have held them six months and can pass examinations (non-competitive). The orders also set up a personnel council, to watch over the merit system which will now blanket 660,000 of the Government's 826,319 civil employes...