Word: roles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Count Bethlen suddenly resigned as Premier when a financial collapse compelled him to give up revisionism as the price of a French loan. Since then he has played a background role in opposition politics, occasionally coming out of his shell to issue warnings against getting too cozy with the Nazis or to growl about the decadence of his own aristocratic class. Hopeless and outmoded as most of the surviving diplomatic bigwigs of the '205, the crusty Count is convinced that his country is going to pot: "It is much to be feared that Bolshevistic ideology will again strike root...
...time that Benito Mussolini's tens of thousands of soldiers were swaggering around the Spanish landscape during the recent civil war, Adolf Hitler's men modestly stayed in the background, playing a less conspicuous but no less effective role. II Duce sent not only airmen but infantrymen to help Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquer the stubborn Spanish Republicans. Spectacularly he took over the strategic island of Majorca as a bombing base, bombastically he bragged about the brave exploits of his legionnaires...
...universities are competitive as to spectacular features, speakers who will secure the headlines. and finally in the result of it all, the announcement of funds. ... If these college commencements were reduced to their former modest simplicity, if representatives of great financial houses and industries were to play a lesser role, the annual increment would probably fall...
Finally, these recommendations totally ignore the personal qualifications of the House candidate, which do and should play such an important role in admission. While it is granted that the previously mentioned criteria are fairly indicative of a pleasing personality, this is certainly not always the case...
...Last fall English Actor Robert Morley, unknown in the U. S., simultaneously achieved stage fame in the title role of Oscar Wilde, cinema fame as Louis XVI in Marie Antoinette. Last month English Actor Lawrence Olivier, no great name in the U. S., simultaneously achieved stage fame playing opposite Katharine Cornell in No Time for Comedy, cinema fame as Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights. Unlike Morley, Olivier became a terrific matinee idol to boot...