Word: poore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trenches. One hears the Italian soldiers sing "Stillige Nacht" across the battle-fields to their German opponents and the latter reply. Doubtful as the authenticity of this scene may be, it comes as close to real beauty as the talkies have yet approached, and it is especially unfortunate that poor reproduction spoils the singing in several places...
Leaders. While Mr. Morrow will have no official standing as a Senate leader because of his lack of seniority, he will nevertheless be able to exert a strong Hoover influence on the Senate's nominal leadership. Senator James Eli Watson has made such a poor fist of leading the Senate since last April that his Republican followers have been casting about for a means of displacing...
...brought up to put their faith in us-when I come here and have to listen to a Minister of Labor telling us she has to steel her heart against a demand for ?50,000 to alleviate the worst form of suffering amidst the poorest of the poor! It makes me almost burst with indignation at the dishonesty of politics...
...Dramatic Club's performance is tame, it is certainly the faultiness of the play, not of the production. Mr. Goodnow, who knows his theatre, has done all that is humanly possible to fill up the cracks in Milue's poor construction with good directorial coment. The result is a good production of a faulty, but not uninteresting play Act I is dull writing: in Act II Milne strains our imagination and the physical possibilities of the stage in the arrangement of the dream scene. Act III is almost worthy of Milne as we have come to know his fine abilities...
...astonishment. I realize that the CRIMSON is an organization, as it is perfected today, which must give vent to "spleenic" irritation on some topic daily, and in such a position is often embarrassed as to a subject suitable or humble enough. The question of Senior officers, however, is a poor choice...