Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grim evidence of the determination of Ogaden authorities to risk everything on a climactic mass engagement was visible in the tortured labor of corps of ebony peasants-old men. women, boys and girls -sweating in a blistering sun to perfect the [Ethiopian] Army's last line of defense...
...collar (see cut). His little sister Anna Maria, the first child of the Dictator to bear "a good Catholic name," pursued her studies in the same class and both were cared for by fat, completely self-effacing Donna Rachele Mussolini who is her husband's idea of the perfect Italian wife. Above suspicion, she dwells most of the time in northern Italy, visited by her Caesar in a spirit of duty, which gives way at times to happy comradeship of an evening in the flickering glow of oil lamps on their farm...
Walter Pidgeon as Nordoff is the perfect artist--highly emotional, moody, egoistical, but a boy at heart. Ruth Weston plays Mrs. Nordoff with such charm and mature talent that she runs off with the play. Glenn Anders is given all too little to do, but succeeds in playing a manager who doesn't cavort about with the extravagant boisterousness we have been forced to suffer from the run of managers, performing the role of Nordoff's manager and man Friday with quiet charm which is a grand relief from the extravagant boisterousness which most players lend to such a part...
Dartmouth this week will add another chapter in the story of the 1935 booting machine, so far unbeaten. Perhaps Floyd Haskell, who filled in at halfback for Dan Purdue on Saturday, can release Frank Vincent into the forward line. Perhaps Syd Dawson will perfect that corner kick which led to the first goal against Army. Perhaps the Motley brothers will learn to meet the ball on the nose every time when in scoring position...
...blacks in the cast proved perfect actors. Crown is strapping Warren Coleman. Flashy, irrepressible Sportin' Life is John W. Bubbles of the dance team. Buck & Bubbles. Bess is Anne Wiggins Brown, daughter of a Baltimore physician, who learned to sing at the Juilliard School of Music. Todd Duncan, a rich-voiced baritone who heads the music department at Howard University, plays Porgy in such a way as to suggest that some day he might be a candidate for grand opera...