Word: personably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ethel Barrymore is superb in the role of Sara. Although the role is that of a dominant person, Miss Barrymore has happily realized that all Sara's command is feminine, and has attached no masculinity to the character. Dudley Digges as Magnate Clevenger carries the impersonation to perfection without falling into the ever-present danger of exaggeration. The rest of the cast is so numerous and so uniformly good that no further special mention is possible...
...danger of riding on the top was illustrated by the fact that company employees must even be paid a special fee to persuade them to get on top to repair the pole which carries enough current to electrocute a person...
...than anyone else living in the Yard. At that time he is thrown into the discard because of an election of a class president, a position that today is both meaningless and unsound. It seems absurd to cast out an executive trained for the position in favor of a person "democratically" chosen in an election in which more than half the voters do not know for whom they are voting...
Italy was the only Christian country whose newsorgans all presented this Palestine story of last week as it is seen by the eyes of Islam. Moslems in Italian North Africa, who recently were invited by Il Duce in person to hail him as "The Protector of Islam" and did so (TIME, March 29), last week adopted resolution after resolution of solidarity with Moslems of Palestine. At Addis Ababa, the Italian Viceregal Government's censors passed dispatches announcing that "Leaders of the Moslem community in Ethiopia" have addressed to the League of Nations expressions of "the strongest disapproval...
Although the United States Constitution contains no such express limitation on martial law, the general provision, "No person shall . . . be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law", was held by the United States Supreme Court in the great case of Ex-Parto Milligan to make it, impossible for an earlier Governor of Rhode Island (General Burnside) to establish martial law, even during the Civil War, in a region (Indiana) which was not invaded by the enemy but completely free from disorder and in which the civil courts were quietly sitting...