Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James Roosevelt, 80, mother of the President, resigned her honorary vice-presidency of the Motion Picture Re-search Council. Her reason: "I'm much too busy and too old to do anything...
Indeed, "One Light Burning" casts a spell of unreality over its willing reader. Paradoxically enough the spell is made more potent by realistic descriptions of the people and the surroundings. The account of Andrew's expedition wandering in the frozen wastes of Russia in search of a brilliant philosopher, who at times seems to become an illusion, a product of fevered imaginations, and the story of Sandy's slow degeneracy are perhaps unsurpassed by any realistic novelist. But it is the motivation of the characters which makes this novel outstanding...
...well worthy of inclusion in a U. S. anthology, is the title story, Kneel to the Rising Sun: A spineless sharecropper, whose landlord persistently half-starves him and browbeats him, as he does all his tenants, one night finds his old father missing from the cabin. To help him search he rouses a Negro neighbor; together they find the old man's body, half-devoured by their landlord's hogs. When they wake the landlord there is a quarrel between him and the Negro, which is the excuse the landlord has been waiting for. While the Negro takes...
...initiative for appointment or promotion, or an effective final decision. Less intimately connected with the machinery of the departments, and hence less liable to the prejudice of personal opinion, they will also be in a far better position to survey and draw from the entire educational field in the search for new and different talent. With a full sense of our temerity in broaching this almost sacred question, we earnestly recommend to the Corporation, the open minded consideration and appraisal of Yale's traditionally hierarchial methods. Yale Daily News...
...Weyerhaeuser chauffeur drove up. Anne came out. Together they waited minute after minute for little George. When he failed to appear, they hurried home to tell his parents who started a search of the neighborhood. At 2 p.m. the Weyerhaeusers notified the Tacoma police of their son's disappearance. The Governor of Washington dispatched a special detachment of the state patrol to join the hunt. Within 24 hours 15 Department of Justice operatives from Portland, Seattle, San Francisco had converged by plane, train and car on Tacoma. The fearfully expected ransom note, posted at 6 p.m., signed "The Egoist...