Word: roome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...connection with this second trend, one of these closed schools clearly paid more attention than most to the kind of private instruction for troubled students which the University has recently undertaken officially. Such "legitimate" tutoring has been quite rightly taken over by the University, but consequently there is no room left for outside agencies. The sudden demise of the second cram parlor, which rather specialized in the spreading of canned information, shows that the less successful schools are already falling by the wayside. This may well be an indication that the barometer is falling around the more notorious rivals...
When a citizen of London hears stealthy footsteps in his pantry, finds his drawing room in flames, or stumbles over a body on the stairs, he knows precisely what to do. He picks up the nearest telephone, dials 999, and waits for help to come. For number 999 on London's exchange brings policemen, fire engines, ambulances...
...farce must) piles up its laughter; everybody works a little too hard, tries to be a little too crazy. It's the old George Abbott formula minus the old George Abbott form: quite a drop from the headlong days of Three Men on a Horse and Room Service, when in the world of farce, the Abbotts spoke only...
...room No. 1037 on the south side of a massive, red-brick building in St. Paul last week charwomen were dusting and cleaning and bustling about. On the north side of the ugly old office building, in No. 1030 (separated by no more than a locked door and a corridor from 1037), more charwomen were kicking the dust and dirt around. No. 1037 had been vacant since Jan. 24 for lack of a president of the Great Northern Railway. No. 1030 had been vacant since Sept. 4 for lack of a president of Northern Pacific. This week both rooms were...
...critical standards are, at best, superimposed rationalizations of instinctive judgements. Any attempt to erect a standard of morality in art is nothing more than a class-room stunt. It is the old story of individual taste which has and will remain unchanged. But there is one new standard of critical truth which must not be overlooked, no matter how greatly individual tastes may vary: art is beginning to have political and social implications; it is becoming closely intertwined with the earth upon which we walk and the lives which we lead. Consequently, since art is in the process of adopting...