Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grim grey courtroom. A cabaret dancer (Ruth Page), a jealous chorus girl and a maniac are all accused of killing Page's dancing partner (Bentley Stone). While masked jurors look on stupidly, the crime is three times re-enacted as different witnesses saw it. Revolver shots ring out from the orchestra. The jury believes any story. The pompous judge makes no decision, pounds his hammer for the next case on the docket...
...Negroes of Durham, N, C. call it "Mr. Duke's Univussity." Durham newsfolk who depend on it for frequent stories call it a "three-ring circus." One ring in the Duke University tent which has something going on all the time is the Department of Psychology. That department is headed by aging, idealistic, contentious Professor William McDougall, emphatic exponent of Lamarckism (inheritance of acquired characteristics); it publishes Character and Personality ("An International Quarterly for Psychodiagnostics and Allied Studies"); and for four years it has nurtured the most significant and apparently the most cold-blooded scientific attack ever made...
...Dial 911, wait for the dial tone, then dial nine, hang up, and wait for the phone to ring." Such are the instructions from a meddlesome student who has discovered in the new telephone system a method of revenge for the petty persecutions of human operators...
...like a blond does not make you Nordic inside. Racial worth is not a question of outer looks. It is inner feeling. This craze for blonds, which is wasting rivers of peroxide, has gone too far. Many dark-haired people have pure, heroic German souls." Examples: Hitler, Göring, Goebbels...
...first blow struck at what was described as a widespread Eastern counterfeiting ring, with bases in New-ark, N. J., and New York...