Word: partings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There has been no "brooding and glooming for a whole season" on the part of the Philadelphia Orchestra. The Orchestra is behind its Music Director, Eugene Ormandy...
...years ago. The Rev. Ed. S. Taylor's famous history of playing cards, published in 1865, quoting from the memoirs of Barere and de Bachaumont, says that creps was one of the principal games played in the gambling houses of the Palais Royal in Paris in the latter part of the 18th Century. In 1818, long before craps was popular in the U. S., the Bibliothéque Historique referred to "one table of craps" as among the frivolities of the gambling houses of Paris...
...obvious flaw in Mr. Suma's thesis is his careful avoidance of the basic question of the morality of one nation forcibly jamming its desires down the throat of a weaker neighbor. Then again, while he builds up an effective indictment against the Chinese for their part in hastening the outbreak of the present hostilities, Mr. Suma says nothing concerning the earlier conquest of Manchuria and North China...
...first year has now ended. Behind the walls of the much renovated Big Tree Swimming Pool are masses of facts and figures on almost every phase of life of some 80 normal boys. A thorough medical examination, registration of metabolism and fatigue tests, an anthropological examination,--all these were part of the survey of the physical side. On the mental side, investigations of the boy's genealogy and of his home, religious, sex, and academic life were correlated to produce a fairly accurate, if somewhat superficial, knowledge of his mental make-up. Results and conclusions of the survey will...
...Wrath." Unique and distinctive in flavor, the picture shows the touch of original minds, unfettered with any great desire to produce a cash-register success. The pace is as slow and restful as South Sea surf. The comedy and tragedy of the plot are not, for the most part, dependent upon melodramatic action, but rather upon the subtle shades of acting. Yet the best acting, the best characterizations, are done by the supporting cast and not, strangely enough, by Mr. Laughton. His portrayal of Ginger Ted is consistent neither in mood nor in quality of acting. Apart from the essential...