Word: parallelisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protest, the rector of Berlin's fashionable Jesus Christ Church cried: "When the government of the Church compels its preachers to proclaim that all other nations are inferior in comparison with the Nordic Germanic race, it is guilty of an arrogance and an uncharitableness that has no parallel in history. No Christian should dare even to breathe the suggestion of a 'ghetto church...
Broadway Through a Keyhole shows Crooner Jolson's grounds for fisticuffs were inadequate. The heroine of the picture (Constance Cummings) works at a night club run by a harridan named Tex Kaley (Texas Guinan). Ruby Keeler was once one of Texas Guinan's "little girls," but this parallel would not be enough to make any cinemaddict mistake the heroine or any of the other characters in the picture for real people. The heroine is a goodie-goodie chorus girl, patterned after the roles Miss Keeler takes in Warner Brothers musicals. A silent gangster (Paul Kelly) with a heart...
This problem of lost causes finds a curious modern parallel in the refusal of Norman Thomas to support the fusion ticket in New York City. There is an interesting correspondence on just this point in the Nation, between Mr. Thomas and Oswald Garrison Villard, who believes that so fine an opportunity for deposing the sorry shame yelept O'Brien ought not be overlooked. Thus he is not so fastidious as Mr. Thomas, who looks upon Boss Koenig as the undeniably unpleasant thug he is, chides Mr. La Guardia for camping among the enemy, even in the high...
...advantages ought to be extended to include the Freshman, and to connect him as permanently as possible with those he may meet or chance to know in the higher classes. Just as the introduction of inter-House eating practically re-made the social relationships of upperclassmen, a parallel change, as here suggested, would greatly widen and enrich the Freshman sphere of activity. Chiefly by bringing such influences to bear in the very first year, can the still evident class lines in the Houses be broken down...
...Koch's expedition, operating from the sturdy little baseship Gustav Holm, anchored just under the 80th parallel, has been exploring northern Greenland by air for two years. Two nights on the same day last week brought the total distance covered up to more than 25,000 mi. without one mishap. The other flight was westward, over the Northeast Foreland lip to Peary Land. It discovered that a mountain range beginning at a deepcut mouth, Denmark Fjord, runs out on the lip. Skimming over vast desolate plains lying between this range and the great inland mountain chain. Dr. Koch concluded...