Word: messe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wife was "studying," but what or where has been Mrs. Stalin's secret. Last week Correspondent Barnes discovered her in the All-Union Industrial Academy at Moscow. When Mr. Barnes entered the Academy's laboratory two male students were assisting a female classmate to heat a mess of chemicals in a small flask. The earnest female wore a laboratory smock. Intent on her experiment, she would not be interviewed. Such is the First Red Lady...
...college has indeed sold its birthright for a mess of fire-engines. From this strategic point where they cannot come or go without disturbing the whole Yard and a dozen outlying buildings, the big red trucks will spread bedlam wherever Harvard men have their classes. From Paine Hall to Emerson, Beethoven will be punctuated with triple alarms and Philosophy with false alarms. Even the Gibralter-like walls of the new chapel will tremble...
...Jean Harlow, offers fair entertainment, since it contains many amusing lines and situations; but it is one of that kind makes the audience think that it would be on so much fun to go home and be whimsical and bohemian. So they are just as likely to go home, mess up the living room, drink some rotten gin, and make unbearable attempts at sprightly conversation. The next morning they regret their impulsive assininity. Such a picture is "Platinum Bloude"; it is more or less entertaining while it happens, but at the end there is the flat taste of near-success...
...good time she was careful about it. When she got the job of stenographer to the town's most eligible young man she felt her foot was on the ladder. It was. Before Bill knew what was happening to him Lillian had him in a shrewdly compromising mess, his adored young wife had divorced him, and in a daze he had married Lillian. In the uneven battle that followed between Lillian and local society both sides scored some notable victories; at times, in spite of everything, your sympathies are with the outrageous redhead. When Lillian saw she was making...
...ever known she has hung on and muddled through, because, generations before, men of England had hung on and muddled through. That is one of the finest traditions, but there are countless others. For centuries "the brethren in their sorrows overseas" have stood, glass in hand, in barren mess rooms looking at a homely portrait on the wall. One amongst them has said in a quiet hushed tone, "Gentlemen, the Queen", and, with a clicking of heels, the toast has been drunk. After this the little glass shanks of the goblets are flicked apart and they are hurled into...