Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this recent action, the House has made even more obvious the anomalous position of Prohibition in the federal law. The country as a whole has expressed itself against the amendment; the House has refused to sanction the proper enforcement of it; yet with all this, the law remains on the statute books. The immediate result is that whatever other money is spent in the half-hearted enforcement is only wasted. Finally, the House is inevitably breeding contempt of all law by giving carte blanche to all to violate a provision of the national constitution...
...Rome. Her primary interest was more therapeutic than artistic. She wanted to give her pupils the simplest and most direct method of self-expression to avoid the element of fear induced by tools that the child feels incapable of mastering. Spreading paint with the bare hands was an obvious idea but ordinary paints have obvious disadvantages. Fingerpaints, Miss Shaw's own invention, are made with harmless earth, pigments and a cold-creamy substance, all of which washes instantly off. The mixture is sensuously smooth to the touch, comes in six colors, and may be licked or eaten with impunity...
...Park Avenue apartment. Margot Hale, an actress, decides to shield her friend, even at the risk of ruining her career. An ambitious playwright, Philip Elton, finds the situation almost identical with the circumstances at the climax of a play he is reading to Miss Hale. The obvious alibi is given to the police--they were rehearsing and "she didn't know it was loaded." A garrulous doorman (who once procured a chiropractor when an obstetrician was needed) arouses the suspicions of the police when he reveals many of the lies Elton has told to explain his presence and the presence...
Hard, brilliant hitting, clever team work, and superior mounts determined the 12 to 5 victory of the Harvard Varsity polo team against the slightly favored 110th Cavalry aggregation in the Commonwealth Armory last Saturday night. While the score shows the obvious one-sidedness of the game, the play was nevertheless fast and without a dull moment, the individual and collective power of the Crimson riders. Nicholas, McGuckin, and Davis, a Senior-Junior-Sophomore triumvirate, definitely proving the Harvard team to be a dangerous threat for the Boston indoor championship...
...secondary school plant in the country. That particular and isolated lapse is to be sure mitigated by the creation of a few teaching foundations for distinguished faculty members, and was probably a prerequisite to the huge donations; but the contrast with the educational advances of Exeter is only too obvious...