Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Washington should refuse to be responsible for any individual whose person or property is endangered in a country at war. It is the fault of the American people if they don't know enough to stay at home and to keep their money in domestic pockets. Even Washington seems dubious of foreign entanglements, as they have recently forbidden American representatives to marry foreign-born women...
...formal education never hurt any comedian. It is a misconceived notion that a person has to be unlettered in order to be funny. Look at one of the greatest humorists in the world today--Stephen Leacock. Why, that man holds degrees from Oxford, and he taught Political Science at McGill . . . Yet he knocks 'em in the aisles once he gets started...
Freedom of the press, as a time-honored doctrine of Americanism, is at the present day a very nebulous matter. Newspapers are in theory at liberty to say what they choose about any person and any issue; in practice they are controlled by partisanship, in politics, and by the "entrenched greed" that owns them, in general policies, However, up to the present, there has been no actual censorship as such--no board of gimlet-eyed and thimble-brained sycophants to delete everything that might be of interest to a reader with more than half a mind. At the University...
Marlene Dietrich is a wealthy orphan named Domini Enfilden, who proposes to the Mother Superior of the convent where she was brought up a difficult question. "What," Domini asks, "am I to do?" "Go away . . . perhaps, to the desert," says the Mother Superior. This is bad advice. First person Domini meets in the desert is Boris Andtovsky (Charles Boyer), a renegade Trappist monk out to discover, after breaking his vow of lifelong silence, just what it is that makes the world go round. When he has scraped acquaintance with Domini in a night club, they go riding. Without telling...
...California passed a "guest statute" which stipulated that no guest could sue his host for damages unless the host were guilty of gross negligence, drunkenness or willful misconduct. In 1931, to cut down collusion, the gross negligence clause was removed. A guest was denned as a "person who accepts a ride in any vehicle without giving compensation therefor." When the McCann-Hoffman case came to trial year ago, the McCanns claimed that they were not guests of the Hoffmans since they had agreed to share the expenses of the weekend. They accused Biff Hoffman of speeding. He denied speeding...