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...Running Girl, her life ruined by the unrealistic education of the Great White Stepfather, could not reconcile herself to living with the Navajos, became the mis tress of a bad white man, killed herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Indian Shorts | 8/26/1935 | See Source »

...obvious that your editor has mis-judged the "somewhat decadent field of composition" at Harvard. As one who has run the gamut of three of these courses I should like to state that I have nothing but admiration for them. Even English A-1 was made for me an excellent course by a competent man. The same high quality is the standard in the higher courses, at least in English 22 and English 5, the courses I have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Another | 3/9/1935 | See Source »

...that members "fell victims . . . to a false professional optimism." They idealized the workers, he said, without realizing that the revolutionary doctrines which appealed to themselves might not be those most compelling to the workers. When that failed, he said, they concentrated their attack on what they termed the "mis-leaders" of the workers; namely, the Social-Democrats...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FAINSOD SHOWS POINTS WHERE COMMUNISTS FAIL | 12/14/1934 | See Source »

...Barry (Warner) is a conscientious, heavy-handed effort to tell the story of one of the most exciting women who ever lived. It begins when Madame du Barry (Dolores Del Rio) is brought to Louis XV (Reginald Owen) as nominee for a place in a distinguished line of mis tresses, and ends shortly before the Revolution when, with Louis dead and his watchmaker-grandson on the throne, du Barry is led off to prison. In the interim, she has gone sleigh-riding in midsummer on snow contrived of sugar; made her pickaninny body-servant Governor of Provence; averted war with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 22, 1934 | 10/22/1934 | See Source »

...matches of the Massachusetts Squash-Racquets Association. Team A meets the University Club in town, Team B, the Harvard Club, also on Boston courts, while the Freshman C and D teams play Lincoln's Inn and the Salem Squash Clubs in the Linden Street building. Because of some peculiar mis-management on the part of the Squash Association, no matches have been scheduled for the Varsity C team this winter. Although there is a good deal of confusion resulting from this omission, the H.A.A. had nothing to do with it, despite their past difficulties with the increasing demands on squash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SQUASH SEASON TO OPEN TOMORROW AS FOUR TEAMS PLAY | 12/9/1933 | See Source »

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