Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with each other, they failed to settle the differences on which the breach was based. Navy like other colleges observes the three-year eligibility rule; at West Point cadets who have played three years of varsity football elsewhere are still eligible for the team. This gives West Point an obvious advantage in Army-Navy games. Navy has not won since 1921. In last week's game, closing the football season for the East, stout-hearted Navy tried hard, but anyone could see that Army had more power, more experience. Its team was precisely as much better than Navy...
...Million (Paramount) develops an obvious idea in an obvious way. Since the obvious idea is one which cinema producers have overlooked, and since it is handled with skill and enthusiasm, If I Had a Million gives the impression of being a startlingly original picture as well as clever and interesting. John Glidden (Richard Bennett) is a crusty millionaire, infuriated by the avarice and incompetence of the persons who expect to inherit his money. Instead of making a will he decides to distribute his fortune, $1,000,000 at a time, to persons selected at random from the telephone directory...
Singer Smith's selections called for no fancy, bravura vocalizing. He sang two simple folk songs-"The Sidewalks of New York" and "The Bowery"-and so far as his audience was concerned his vocal shortcomings were more than atoned for by his obvious sincerity of purpose. Be fore he had finished he had everyone singing with him, even the traffic cops. Professor John R. Jones, long-haired music-master who usually supervises Mrs. Vanderlip's Infirmary sings, stood in the background, beating orthodox time. But the audience ignored him when Singer Smith grinned a wide grin, waved...
...clear that these courses deal primarily with grammar and translation; several courses in the other languages which are counted for the literature requirement likewise overstress linguistics. It is obvious that an understanding of the grammar and vocabulary of a language is a necessary prerequisite to a literary appreciation of works read in that language, but the "language requirements" are designed to assure that the student has acquired these elements before his graduation The true appreciation of a literature must include the understanding and enjoyment of the work in the whole and of the literature in its historical and humanistic relations...
Receiver for Illinois Life. If you control a life insurance company which has millions of dollars to invest and you also control hotels with mortgages for sale there is an obvious temptation. Chicago's Stevens family, which used to own the Stevens ("World's Greatest") Hotel and the La Salle Hotel, also controlled Illinois Life Insurance Co., a concern with $150,000,000 in policies outstanding, half of them in its home state. Legally, if unwisely, Illinois Life bought $11,000,000 worth of mortgages and securities in the two hotels, both of which have passed into receivership...