Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Results of George's and Elizabeth's 30-day, 10,000-mile visit to Canada and the U. S., during which they were seen by some 15,000,000 people, were intangible but evident. Canada had been given a shot of Empire enthusiasm which would be a long time wearing off. The U. S. and Britain had put on a show of good neighborliness that had dominated the world's news for a week. While the London Times augustly observed that "there was nothing political in the visit," the liberal News Chronicle probably reflected European reactions more...
...will take hours longer beyond reckoning. Poet MacLeish accepted it because, he said, it is one of those posts which "no man has a right to refuse." That he will skimp it, let technicians do all the dirty work, can be suspected only by persons who have never seen tough-minded, tough-muscled Poet MacLeish at work; who do not know that he was a field artillery captain in the War, before that played water polo and football for Yale...
Repercussions of the recent controversy over the adoption of the new Faculty tenure system were seen in Professor Burbank's resignation. Although the noted public finance expert could not be reached for a statement, his resignation is generally interpreted as a protest against the new tenure scale, which he is understood to have opposed on the grounds that it will be detrimental to the best interests of the younger man in his department...
...antispitting law. He also forced the Philadelphia transit company to replace dirty plush streetcar seats with clean, bare benches. In 1919, during a local row over politics in the street-cleaning system, he raised a dust storm with his carpet-beating outburst: "Dust is pulverized poison and we have seen in Filthadelphia too much drifting into damned deferential silences...
...Grade Allen Murder Case (Paramount), by the late S. S. Van Dine, refuses to accept murder as a serious business. Gracie calls Philo Vance "Fido," outfootles Sergeant Heath, falls for the murderer, gets the hero jailed. Typical gag: Gracie scrutinizing her own photograph, wondering, "Now, where have I seen that face before...