Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leila Roosevelt, 26, mother of four, wife of Armand Denis who made the film Goona-Goona, second cousin of Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, planned a 12,000-mi. motor trip through Asia and a book on Persian women. Said she: "I am glad of the relationship. It will enable me to get plenty of letters of introduction done up with great gold seals and bright ribbons. I don't care much what the letters...
...artificial sentiment about poetry as a kind of writing which requires to be set off by itself and cradled in an arty setting of red velvet to distinguish it from its weaker brethren. In the atmosphere of the Woodberry Memorial, poetry becomes a minor specialty, with no discernible relationship to anything vital, but somehow valuable for sentimental associations. This is an attitude to which a great many people subscribe without feeling that a trip to the third floor of Widener is quite worth the effort involved. Antagonism to this idea receives a crowning justification from the low level of taste...
...evident that Cambridge labors under some special disabilities. The real problem for the people of Cambridge is not that of altering the settled policy of the Commonwealth to encourage education by tax-exemptions of educational property devoted to public use, but rather that of ascertaining what is the proper relationship under the conditions of the modern world between their city and the rest of the metropolitan district. Perhaps what is now needed is a wider sense of community than that appropriate for the simpler age when the existing municipal divisions were originally laid out. --Harvard Alumni Bulletin...
...economic morass is the product of the mind of Chicagoan Solomon Levinson, who is reputed to have suggested the term and the idea of a moratorium to President Hoover. The Levinson plan seeks to counteract the French theory of the unity of war debts and reparations by establishing a relationship between war debt reparations and disarmament. It postulates a four year armament holiday...
...discovers happiness in her scholastic exile until she finds that her devotion to her teacher is regarded as a far more heinous infraction of the rules than passing notes. Possibly because most of them did not understand German, U. S. filmgoers were struck by the shy fragility of this relationship. The sense of grey imprisonment, so successfully captured on the screen, is almost entirely lost on the stage. As if to atone for lack of convincing atmosphere, those responsible for Girls in Uniform have made the entente between Manuela and the teacher unwholesomely explicit-a doubtful benefit...