Word: needlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...methods of a hundred and fifty years ago!" And I might add Jesse James. But this is utterly meaningless, a mere hodge-podge of names and inconsistencies, mere guesswork. And nothing is said by way of clearing up this hopeless jumble. Or perhaps he was being witty? Further comment needless, such statements as quoted can be most irritating. They are an insult to one's intelligence. They forfeit any claim to intellectual integrity. Alfred M. Nittle...
...virtue of tolerance. The misfortunes of Jews in Germany supply an apt text for sermons on this subject. An adaptation of Lion Feuchtwanger's famed novel Jew Suss, Power lacks both the clarity and the subtlety of its original but it is not, like A Lost Lady, needless vandalism. Angry and outspoken, it derives force from its sincerity and amounts to an elaborate parable of which there are two reels too many...
...liner Morro Castle, save Madam Minister Owen and her benefactor the embarrassment of explaining to Delaware's Republican Senator Hastings why "the gem of the Coast Guard fleet was taken from its regular station near the scene of the disaster and sent on a needless junket...
...Railroad. In the first place, your caption is all wrong?"Assaulters" is the proper descriptive term. The inflation, per rectum, of persons employed in steel mills and railroad yards is not uncommon, as I have heard of many such assaults and have, on one occasion, treated such a case. Needless to say that my patient died?deliberately murdered by those you term "Pranksters," and from all the records I have at my command, not a single victim has survived. I am wondering if Jaspara Servia survived and I should like to get my report through the same source...
...scenario-writer who during the past 17 years has not written a censored scene or word would like TIME to inform its readers whether the Legion of Decency (whose creation, necessary or needless, he deplores) proposes to extend its boycott of all motion pictures as a punishment for the few admittedly objectionable ones to further fields in which decency is involved...