Word: objectiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French table at the Union which has been the source of so much satisfaction to various members of the department and the object of wary albeit interested glances of the uninitiated held no horrors for a certain blithe members of the class of 1938; that is, until a few days ago. The congenial young men sat himself down at the table in question one day this week, but he know it not as it really was. His entrance caused a momentary hesitation in the smooth Gallic flow of conversation and food, but soon the gentleman on his right asked...
...used it early, with matter-of-fact simplicity and without malice. Next sentence: "These governmental and industrial developments hold promise of new achievements for the nation." Business-at-a-profit thus became, at the outset of his speech, not a naughty subject for the Presidential slipper but a respectable object of national hope and solicitude...
...gone the late Joel Chandler Harris one better. Harris' classic Uncle Remus showed the Negro as storyteller, at one remove from his own concerns; in Bradford's tales Brer Fox and Brer Rabbit appear in their own black skins, without disguise. Negrophiles and educated Negroes may object that Author Bradford simplifies too much, sentimentalizes too often, but plain readers like his stories. Marc Connelley's The Green Pastures, founded on Bradford's first book, Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun, was the Broadway hit of 1930, won the Pulitzer Prize that year...
...gather together the records of the various societies which are associated with Harvard. A large collection has already been made. But it is still being entered rapidly. One of the most interesting was the almost forgotten Med Fac Society, which flourished about fifty years ago, with its main object the perpetration of practical jokes, including sending the chapel bibles to our friends in New Haven
...feature, "Ladies Should Listen," is a highly entertaining comedy of Parisian high life featuring Cary Grant and a starry-eyed newcomer named Frances Drake. It seems evident that our good censors do not object to a certain amount of sugared iniquity, providing it takes place in an apartment of the proper opulence, and also providing that apartment be situated in Parts. After all, with so many Frenchmen around, one must expect that sort of thing. Placed as foil to Grant's sophistication is the doddering Edward Everett Horton...