Word: personably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...History of France to 1461. Medieval History needs a middle course on Continental Europe patterned after Professor Langer's course. It should also embrace Germany--now untouched by the specialized courses on Medieval Europe. The courses in Early Modern History are also in urgent need or revision. Only a person gifted with indefatigble energy and a sense of humour could get a good knowledge of this field. He would have to take the first halves of Histories 42, 50, and 55, the second half of History 40 and all of History...
...proof of his enduring identity, Mr. Cohan is exactly the same person as he was last year in "Dear Old Daddy". A steady, solid, unstartling business man with a constant flow of good humor and dessicated sentiment is again overwhelmed by a rush of romantic events, with which he has had no experience of coping. The first scene sees him happily free; the middle of the second act sees him thoroughly enmeshed; the final scene sees him once again disengaged, through no dramatic denouement or artistic solution, but rather through the magical effects of Mr. Cohan's simple integrity, aided...
...entering life under social disadvantages, which she overcomes in the end by returning to marry Rochester. The latter is harder to define and can be interpreted in several ways; essentially, it is woman's struggle in literature to be considered as more than chaste and innocent, as an intelligent person who can assert her independence and act upon her own principles; it is the struggle of the Victorian woman to free herself from tradition, a revolution not completed until the turn of the century...
...bribe printers, statisticians, copy boys. Even now an occasional ignoramus who thinks the Press knows everything in advance will approach a financial editor with promises of a split on the contemplated killing. One of the few successful numbers frauds occurred in the Curb's stock sales total. A person who looked like a regular Curb employe marched calmly in to the waiting newsmen, posted faked figures. The newsmen dashed out to report the total before the real one was released. When out-of-town numbers bankers were more innocent, New York racketeers used to take advantage of time differences...
...syndicalist convention he attended in Zaragoza before the war, where die-hard syndicalists passed a resolution that "if anyone, male or female, chanced to rouse the sexual feelings of another, it amounted to a gross and palpable interference with the freedom and happiness of that other, unless the guilty person was prepared to relieve the feelings he or she had produced." Since they did not believe in dictatorial control by the state, the syndicalists could only recommend as punishment that the guilty party be sent out of town long enough for all fires to be quenched...