Word: rather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italians have the makings of a just claim to Tunisia-out of which they were rather crudely muscled by the French in 1881-they have a juster claim to a foothold on the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb, the 15-mile-wide channel between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden now dominated by French Somaliland on one side and British Aden on the other (see map). Those who control Bab-el-Mandeb control the southeastern vestibule to the Mediterranean...
...Merchant of Yonkers (by Thornton Wilder; produced by Herman Shumlin) is Thornton Wilder on a lark. The play, like the word, is rather out-of-date: Wilder has rewritten an old Viennese farce with no thought of streamlining it. The scene of The Merchant of Yonkers is Manhattan in the '80s. but old as the European theatre is the plot of the sweated apprentices who sneak off for a holiday, of their miserly old master (Percy Waram) on the hunt for a wife, and of the obliging Mrs. Fixit (Jane Cowl) who fixes things to suit herself. The slapstick...
...Hotel Roosevelt, hired a lawyer, and began whispering in directors' ears, "setting one man against another." Everything was set for open battle when Mr. Catchings saw that a majority of directors sided with Coster, led by representatives of the banking interests that had helped him finance the company. Rather than start a public row to the detriment of the company's reputation, Mr. Catchings issued a report and resigned. Said he last week: "I told them, but they wouldn't accept it, that Mr. Coster's reports were tricked and misleading...
...story deals with the private life of Victoria the woman rather than with the public acts of Victoria the Queen; it consists of ten scenes showing her as the young girl, the possessive wife, and the bereaved widow. Notable is the fact that, although many of the greatest personages of the period pass in review, save for the characters of Prince Albert and Victoria herself, few of them appear on the stage for more than a single scene; yet their contribution to the leading roles is invaluable and their impression on the audience lasting...
From all indications it appears that Greenwood will bring to the Indoor Athletic Building a rather weak team as it has in the past. Hailing from Gardner, Massachusetts, where the "Memorial" is a club of the Y. M. C. A. variety, the Greenwood boys will have the rely upon their nerve rather than their swimming ability to score many points against the Ulenmen...