Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...antithesis of Actor Gielgud, Actor Howard robs Hamlet of every shred of dignity and nobility: by being peevish with Polonius' garrulity instead of simply bored; by being quizzical when he means to be sardonic; by indicating neither method in his madness nor madness in his methods; by delivering most of his soliloquies while loping about the stage and peering under the furniture; by failing at any point to convince the audience it is watching anything more than Leslie Howard walking through a part. Unanimously, metropolitan critics found star and production remarkably unexciting, agreed with the Post's scholarly...
Though return to the old rules was not advocated by too tremendous a majority, 792 to 433, voters rejected revision and standardization of these rules by 692 to 412. The Oxford card system found little favor as a method of revision, being snowed under by almost a 3 to 1 count...
...always been far higher than at home, the stockmarket shot up in the heaviest trading since last February. Day after elections, the Dow-Jones industrial stock average climbed nearly 4 points, best day's gain since 1933. Public utility stocks, which had been widely touted as the best method of batting on Alf Landon, declined automatically. Next day, however, while trading on the New York stock exchange swelled to 3,600,000 shares, even the utilities perked up. Day after that the stockmarket paused for breath, having set a new high for Recovery in the third broadest...
...decision to prove that Lektro-Shaver had been upheld only on a minor point. Best quotation in the Colonel's opinion was this: "The Schick device. . . is new, novel, and useful, and it can be well understood that in all probability this device will revolutionize the manner and method of shaving...
Aside from the quiet time, the distinguishing characteristics of the Buchmanite movement consist of a use of confession, psychologically a perfectly satisfactory method of relieving the mind (and one that the Catholic Church has been availing itself of for some time), their admitted social discrimination, and an insistence on the fulfillment of the four key words of absolute honesty, absolute purity, absolute unselfishness, and absolute love. The social discrimination is justified by the statement that it is folly to have their "teams" attempt mass conversions, but that conversion of the "key people" in a community will have the same result...