Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (Paramount) is capricious proof that impish, cheroot-chewing Ernst Lubitsch is as deft a director as ever. Foil for most of Director Lubitsch's fun-making is gawky, good-natured Gary Cooper, a wealthy, clean-shaven Bluebeard loose on the Riviera after seven short-order U. S. marriages. Believing that "Lovemaking is the red tape of marriage," he wants to marry in haste when he meets pertly marriageable Claudette Colbert. When she learns of the previous seven wives, she treats him to six months of honeyless honeymooning. When eventually remorseful Claudette is ready...
...presenting flesh-&-blood characters as pawns in a chess puzzle, most writers satisfy neither the novel reader nor the mystery addict. But Wilbur Daniel Steele does well by both. Background and atmosphere are authentic; the characters are clear but not overdeveloped; the plot is ingenious, well-planned, addict-proof...
...punch of an editorial is proof. Just how much later is our vacation than any other? That, however, is difficult to say, because four catalogues reveal vacations that last just as late as ours; Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, and Wellesley...
...towards its own capital, President Roosevelt's removal of Arthur E. Morgan as T.V.A. chairman strikes a sour note in the policies of the chief executive. He has raised a delicate legal question that may drag on for months, but whatever the decision, this struggle of personalities is another proof of the peculiar opportunism which the President has always possessed. He is a chess player whose plan consists of a vast desire to win, whose method is to cope with each situation when it comes up and not before, hardly troubling himself to look more than one move ahead. This...
...evils arising from a discrepancy in the Department of Government are not nearly so insidious as they may appear. There are but three half-courses for which a Senior may receive credit without giving proof of his work, and these are adequately covered by the General Examinations in May. In the case of a man who has done none of the work required, he is likely to do poorly in these examinations, so poorly in fact that he may have to take the final examination in the course, and his degree will depend on the outcome. Moreover, a student...