Word: portions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bible and Shakespeare forms the very backbone of the study of any literature, while a through understanding of two Ancient (or Modern) authors is of definite worth, if, however, this background is not obtained until two thirds of one's general study has been completed, only the smallest portion of its purpose can be realized...
...Mother's Millions" is, as might be suggested by the title, a one woman affair. It was inevitable that the production should stand or fall according to the ability of the central character. In portraying on the scren a portion of the life of the famous feminine financier, Hettie Green, May Robson has created a characterization which not only set the seal of success on the picture, but has entitled it to be ranked high among the yearly output of Hollywood...
...plague menaces-indeed already afflicts-a great portion of the flock intrusted to our care, striking more clearly the weaker though the more strongly loved -the children; the humble and those with less money-the workers and the proletariat. We refer to the grave pecuniary embarrassment, the financial crisis which ... is bringing unemployment to every land. . . . Now Winter approaches and with it the long succession of suffering and privation which that season brings, especially to the poor and to the helpless young. Most serious of all, however, is that steady aggravation of the plague of unemployment to which we have...
...outside walls of the central portion of the laboratory appear the figures of animals native to the Ethiopian region of central Africa. Figures of beasts of Indo-Asiatic and Holactic habitat are carved on the walls of the long wing in two balanced groups. The central carving in the Holactic group is placed in the same relative position as that occupied by the Indo-Asiatic leopard in the other group. The short wing will be incised with figures of neotropical mammals. The remainder of the space available for carving will be used to represent the principal animals to be found...
...dies and is buried near the clubhouse. A boy named Bitts gets his father to buy the lot on which the clubhouse stands but Penrod's father buys it back again. The clubhouse is a cozy shanty, ornamented outside by a piece of tin, a portion of rubber-hose, furnished inside with barrels of paint, old packing boxes, a tin-gavel and a periscope made out of a broken mirror. Most enthusiastic members are two small blackamoors, Herman Washington (James Robinson) and Verman Washington (Robert Dandridge), who are so young & ignorant that they are unable to read the club...