Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...call in Treasury experts to advise him. Wilson and Bryan, says Dr. Tansill, were gulled by Wall Street, approving measures that ran counter to their policy of neutrality in general, until the U. S. was bound to the Allied cause by the firmest of economic ties. Nevertheless, he clears Wall Street of the charge of dragging the U. S. into the War. The pressure of Wilson's intimate advisers and the failure of Germany to cooperate in Wilson's peace program were the immediate causes...
...Moeran. Premiered before a stuffy audience in Cincinnati's Music Hall, Moeran's opus drew pleased applause but no hosannas. Conductor Goossens' pronouncement has been only a cackle. But if Composer Moeran's symphony turned out to be less than a golden egg it was nevertheless a true symphony, meaty, fresh, symmetrical...
Pleasant is the word for "The First Hundred Years," now playing at the Paramount and Fenway Theatres. Burdened with a plot which has taken up thousands of magazine pages and miles of movie film, the picture has nevertheless been well enough seasoned by Virginia Bruce, Robert Montgomery, and Director Richard Thorpe to be palatable...
...group of Yardlings already on the trail of Americana under the direction of the Freshman pathfinder, and from the number who responded in one House to the experiment of an English tutor, there is certainly no lack of enthusiasm, which situation graces with practicality the scheme of House Counselors. Nevertheless, it seems plausible that the seven can be of greater service to the Plan by publicizing the when and where of their availability, by holding informal discussions in the common rooms, and by occasionally giving lectures, such as Professor Frankfurter's April talks on Justice Holmes. Easily and rightly they...
...affairs of his whole family without an instant's remorse, is a pompous, ridiculous, formidable figure. "Ah - fine weather," says Papa Pasquier, as he steps outdoors, "or at least pretty good." Although Author Duhamel obviously sympathizes with the hysterical, poetic Laurent, who tells the story, he nevertheless does not spare him. To shame his money-grubbing brother the penniless Laurent takes his first 1,000 francs and horrifies him by tearing it up and throwing it into the Marne. Not for a long time can Laurent steel himself to confess that while he was making his grandiose speech about...