Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...welcome the belated lightening of their depressed budgets and feel assured that Lehman Hall will not suffer fatally from reduced returns. But the administration's obvious duty of lowering room rents should not be obscured by this latest manifestation of official awakening. Board and room are totally independent and merit separate consideration. The lowering of one cost does not preclude lowering the other. Lehman Hall must now turn its attention toward answering a similar and equally justified demand for less expensive rooms...
...these last few pages of the work that merit closest attention. In them is concentrated the opinions of a man, who, after long association with criminals, has not lost faith in humankind, who remains firm and steady in his beliefs while all is hysteria about him. Lawes is ardently opposed to capital punishment; he is an equally strong advocate of indeterminate sentences, with the length dependent on the individual rather than on the crime. All this has been said before, but usually in an atmosphere of sentimentality which disgusts surfeited auditors. Whatever else one may say of Lawes...
...light" music, 20% to "serious" music, 14% 1 "variety" (songs & comedy), 10% to "dance bands," 8% to the children's hour, 7% to "serious" talks, 3% to drama, 1% to religious services, 1% to "gramophone records," the remaining 5% to "special transmission" such as charitable appeals of approved merit, police alarms, descriptions of missing persons...
...producing for the first time in this country the play of a well-known German playwright, and the production has secured the interest and support of the professional theatre. Under these favorable conditions the Dramatic Club must stand for criticism wholly on the basis of its own merit, having no alibis to put forward should the play be a failure...
...Truth About Blayds after ten years is depressing. It reveals all the promise that Playwright Milne once showed. In 1921-22 three Milne plays were produced in the U. S.: Blayds, The Great Broxopp and delightful Dover Road. The first and last were thought of as works of considerable merit. They had principle, and although neither was written with incontestable consistency, each was written with undeniable brightness and charm. There is still lots of charm in Blayds, the tale of an eminent Victorian who lived to 90 amid plaudits for his immortal poetry. Unhappily for most of his family...