Word: needful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present familiarity with the great figures of the past suggests, perhaps correctly, long silent hours devoted to scholarship, friends recall that her penchant for playing hooky worried her mother a lot until Ina convinced her that, as she had already determined to become an actress, she did not need an education. What she needed, she insisted, was emotion. She made what use she could of this quality in her first vaudeville part, which she achieved in 1907, and which consisted mostly of imitations of Harry Lauder. After warming up on Orpheum and Proctor circuits she played in the cast...
Novelist Zweig sued for criminal libel. Last week a Berlin judge listened gravely to Lieut. Col. von Bogen's patrioteering defense, fined him $150, ruled that "no writer need be subjected to such scurrilous personal attacks...
Aside from the Marx brothers, and there are only three of them who count, Harpo, Groucho, and Chico, the show is a better than average musical production. Such a statement is distinctly damning it with faint praise; but it need not worry any one because these gentlemen so overshadow the remaining performers and performances that "the show aside from the Marx brothers" need not even be taken into consideration. They are the evening's entertainment, and better could not be asked. They pull exactly the same sort of gag which they did in "The Cocoanuts...
...farmers' eyes, the chief center of attack on the new tariff is in the international complications arising from it. With Europe in debt to the United States to the extent of many billion dollars it would not seem to require Economics A in order to realize the need of an American market for European goods. Whatever other intelligent way is there to move such huge sums across the Atlantic? Certainly to continue to drain Europe of gold is a policy that more resembles the activity of a Cortez than of a government which boasts of its sound good business policy...
...vast body of Western graduates, and to the even greater body of Big Ten associates the presence of the University Band in its traditional role will satisfy a definite need. It is not so much the individual pride in a swinging mass of musicians as merely a deep seated satisfaction at seeing Harvard in full regalia, the instinctive desire for the war paint and tom-tom of inter-collegiate and in this case intersectional conflict. Goodwill is distinctly of practical value and in this action the Student Council has made a strong investment...