Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been law-abiding, not by compulsion from above, but from a sense of the fitness of things. The success of self-government is based on a confidence that one's neighbors will conform to the established rules of conduct, and anything that undermines that confidence strikes at the root of our civil life...
Three Faces East (Warner). "Three Faces East" is the password of German spies operating in England, who answer when they hear it "Forward and Back." At the root of it all is the master spy, Erich Von Stroheim, whose allegiance to his Vaterland is not adulterated when the King of the Belgians decorates him for valor. The story is highly theatrical but, in view of what is known of the actualities of international espionage during the War, not excessively romanticized. It is good entertainment, smoothly built and wonderfully acted by Von Stroheim and Constance Bennett who make it convincing...
...different, sporting-society world, with a touch of court and politics. Andrew Mellon and Harold S. Vanderbilt, British Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay, the Stokes, Astors, Burdens, Hitchcocks and Long Islanders, with a rag tag of art and literature plus Betty Nuthall and Rudy Vallée-and at the root of it a fact: the U. S. polo team won the first match in the international series from England at Meadow Brook...
Awarded. To Elihu Root, 85: the distinguished service medal of the American Bar Association, prime honor of the U. S. bar; in Chicago...
...killing of them there. A discovery which may furnish a better method of controlling the spread of sleeping sickness was announced recently by R. H. T. P. Harris, director of research in Zululand. He found the tsetse fly sensitive to pyrethrum (insect powder.) and veratrine (obtained from the root of the Indian poke). Especially effective was a .5% mixture of veratrine and cocoanut oil. Applied to a live animal, this mixture killed the attacking fly immediately. Since there are great stretches of land in Zululand which are unfit for agriculture, protesters are advocating that some of this area...