Word: remissions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pretty Mary Rogers (Sylvia Sidney) lives in a firetrap. When a fire breaks out, her small brother falls off a ladder, a bystander (Leif Erikson) takes both to the hospital. He turns out to be the owner of the tenement. Convinced that he has been remiss, he decides to pull down all his old tenements, put up better ones. Legal, social and domestic difficulties impede him. But when the tenement where Mary Rogers lives flares up again, he finally goes to work...
...Jean De Koven's traveler's checks, obviously forged, the French police stubbornly refused to believe that a kidnapping could occur in present-day France. Petit Parisien headlined its story: "American Dancer Runs Away and Tries to Extort Money from Aunt." French police were not entirely remiss, however. The mysterious Bobby was suspected of being an habitue of the Pavilion Bleu at St. Cloud. Night & day detectives watched the Pavilion Bleu, abandoned their vigil only when wreckers arrived and tore it down...
...only objection is that that notice was posted early in October, and although there are weekly assignments, no written announcements of them, in that particular section, have been made since. Almost all the English A instructors are regularly or occasionally remiss in nailing up these little sheets. The diligent scholar, to be sure, can always get the assignment in class. Since, however, the written announcements are prescribed, the intention of the course is clearly to provide for the day-dreamers and the hooky-players. A little closer attention to duty on the part of the instructors might inspire a like...
Similar to the U. S. Book-of-the-Month Club is the Book Society of England, but its officials are frequently remiss in their labors. Without carefully reading the manuscript. Book Society officials picked for their May selection Coronation Commentary by Geoffrey Dennis, ordered 10,000 copies. The title was perfectly timed. Of the author, the officials knew that he was Editor & Chief of the Document Service of the League of Nations Secretariat, well-versed in the history and procedure of the British Crown, author of many a forceful magazine article, and husband of a great-niece of Dante Gabriel...
...only his old punching dummy, the Jews, that Adolf Hitler was attacking last week. The doughty Führer and his trained press squared off at the U. S. also. Though Nazi propagandists have been remiss in neglecting the satiric possibilities of Father Divine (see p. 61), they found a ripe windfall in Mississippi's savage blowtorch lynchings of last fortnight (TIME, April 26). This was amplified by newsreel shots of Sit-Down strikes. And Schwarze Korps, organ of Hitler's special guards, was able to do its bit. It filled a front page with pictures...