Word: seconde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This incident is only one example of the hundreds of forms of pressure which had been brought to bear on President Lebrun. who some time ago expressed his reluctance to run for a second seven-year term. This week, just four days before the election, he bucked up enough to announce that he would run again. In a speech in Montélimar. in the Rhone valley, at ceremonies memorializing France's seventh President (1899-1906). Emile Loubet, President Lebrun quoted a famous Loubet statement: "I didn't come here [into office] for my pleasure...
Protected by her insularity and guarded by a second-to-none Navy, Britain has long resisted conscription even in wartime. There were no drafts during the Napoleonic campaigns, the Crimean War or the Boer War. Only in 1916, nearly two years after the World War began, was the first British draft made...
...refusal to eat, refusal to move about. They were placed in the enclosure for two minutes a day, day after day. In general the emotional rats manifested uneasiness longest, started eating latest. The psychologist bred emotional males to emotional females, unemotional males to unemotional females. He thus obtained two second generations, one of which was seven times more emotional than the other. Conclusion: "Differences in emotionality appear to be genetically determined...
...play is a kind of pious froth about an attractive Main-Line Philadelphia society girl with a high and historic sense of her own importance. After a first marriage that crashed because she behaved like a Moon-Goddess instead of a wife, she is about to make a second marriage (with the wrong man) in the same holier-than-thou manner. On the eve of the wedding, various well-wishers file by to tell her what an impossible little prig she is. But it remains for an agin-the-rich magazine writer from Destiny (sister publication of the picture-magazine...
...time, Playwright Barry's little fireside mottoes are neatly and trimly framed. Smart, gossipy, wisecracking, full of family jokes about fashionable Philadelphia and other Biddle-dee-dee, the nearest The Philadelphia Story comes to tragedy is the paralytic stroke suffered by the plot at the end of the second act. Though not up to Barry's best trifling, the play provides an entertaining evening, thanks to gay, lively dialogue and Actress Hepburn's amazing aptness for her role...