Word: simpler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rattle, bombs are thrown, punts shot down. Presently no one much is left except the appalled press agent and a pretty girl sportswriter (Nell O'Day). Rackety Rax was adapted from Joel Sayre's brief novel first published in the American Mercury last January. It uses a simpler technique than recent pictures in the same vein (Once in a Lifetime, The Phantom President) to attain hilarious absurdity. It simply allows the behavior of its characters, who are presented in straightforward fashion, to reach a logical extreme. Good shot: McGloin using a "lie detector" on a speakeasy proprietor...
...received by George V at levees, ladies being presented at Buckingham Palace, where Their Majesties reside. Thus the Court of St. James's (Palace) is the form in common use. But Subscriber Church is quite right in his citation of the official ruling. Henceforth TIME will use the simpler form. Also for simplicity TIME will continue to call George V "King of England," rather than (officially) "of Great Britain . . . King."-ED. Eyes of Texas...
...country's sole contribution to world culture. U. S. plumbing annually reaches new esthetic and utilitarian highs. Last week King Prajadhipok missed new plumbing highs in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. A magenta watercloset built all in one piece of porcelain stood alone on a green throne, simpler than Prajadhipok's. A seven-foot bathtub surnamed the Bourbon Luxury was flooded with soft lighting, framed in banks of peonies, on a marble stage. The National Association of Master Plumbers' annual exposition was definitely art-conscious. The Master Plumbers claimed that their "glorification of the unmentionable...
Soothed, the Assembly turned to simpler decisions...
...simpler for news readers, confused with stories of Britons fighting Somali in Somaliland, Italians fighting Senussites in Libya, Frenchmen fighting Tuaregs in Algeria, Spaniards fighting Riffi in Morocco, to remember that North Africa is populated by four races ("white" Berbers, Arab conquerors, native Jews, Negroes) which include innumerable tribes and sects. Italy's troublesome Senussites are a rambunctious Arab sect founded by Sidi Mohammed ben Ali ben Es Senussi el Khettabi el Hassani el Idrissi el Mehajiri, who was born in Algeria with an urge to militant reform. He ordered his two sons to jump off a palm tree...