Word: noting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the announcement that there are now three Wolffs and an orang outang to assist delinquent students over the scholastic bumps. Whether the latest addition to Clan Wolff will be tutored by his playmate Peter or whether he will cast aside the paternal yoke and resort to the tutoring note method of self-erudition has not yet been disclosed...
...blanks given to Yardlings to fill out were pertinent questions about the values, if any, of the faculty advisers for yearlings. In a brief introductory note, the editors of the publication advocated that Seniors be employed, receiving remuneration, to take the place of faculty men in advisory capacities...
Pope Pius' pastoral letter of last March, which took Germany sharply to task for persistent breaches of the Vatican-Nazi Concordat of 1933, had been answered by a rude peremptory note. Read the official resumé: "The Vatican applies to the new Germany, democratic and parliamentary standards which are not applicable...
...Heaven (1927), but it is really Fredric March whose casting was a Selznick master stroke. An intelligent actor who studies his roles carefully, March's work in the past has often had, perhaps on this account, an elusive but annoying artificiality. In A Star Is Born this false note becomes precisely the true one required to make his performance in the role of actor the best since his similar job in The Royal Family. Good sequence: Maine delivering amiable insults to his sanatorium attendant-christened "Cuddles" after Bing Crosby's bull in Rhythm on the Range...
...Exchange of Letters,* which critics recognized as belonging with such classic literary rebukes as Zola's J'Accuse. Like most such spontaneous expressions of intellectual integrity, An Exchange of Letters was called into being by a relatively small occasion. Last December Dr. Mann received a curt note from the Frederick-William University, of Bonn, stating that since "Herr Thomas Mann, writer," had lost his citizenship, the University was obliged to withdraw its honorary degree. Author Mann's reply to this last straw was first published in the Nation, was reprinted by his U. S. publisher to coincide...