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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Originally scheduled as a Class B picture, "Three Smart Girls" began to show potentialities about three quarters of the way through production, with the result that Universal expended a considerable sum retaking old scenes and shooting new ones. In their revamping process the producers overlooked a strong inconsistency in the character of the father of the girls. Appearing first in the stock comedy role of the middle aged man in love with a young charmer, he was an entirely ludicrous figure of the Keystone Cop variety. Later, when the film was expanded he developed into a definite individual, warm...
...keep us out of war, and it won't do anything of the sort. It would take us into war rather than keep us out." Opponents of the bill have in mind the narrow range of discretion which the President is allowed and the possible repercussions which might result from a vigorous application of the proposed laws. As soon as the President declares a state of war or civil strife to exist a number of very definite commercial and financial drawbridges are raised: an automatic embargo on exports of arms, ammunition and "implements of war"; curtailment of all loans...
...used to have a habit of looking down on illegitimate children," cried Nazi Ley. "It was an old-fashioned prejudice that has today become an absurdity. We must grant the unmarried mother, who bears a child as a result of natural healthy instincts, the same respect and the same protection as we grant married mothers...
Last summer the Convocation of York did so. Month ago the Convocation of Canterbury followed suit. Before these steps can result in any kind of fellowship, before Anglicans and Orthodox can decide upon what they jointly believe, similar negotiations must be opened with the Orthodox churches of Russia, Greece, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria...
...Egypt even the seasons (flood, winter, summer) are the Nile's doing. And Egypt's whole civilization-and consequently the world's-is the result, says Ludwig, of the river's perennial lessons. "The calculation of the height of the flood produced the measurement of height, the marking out of single fields with boundaries that were washed away every year gave rise to square measure, to the protection of property and the settlement of boundary disputes. It was the Nile that created mathematics, law and equity, money and politics, long before any other association of people...