Word: solids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that, it is an evening's worth of high-tension excitement, with astonishingly little remission. After you have left the theatre, however, your task--the spectator's task--is done. There is nothing to brood over in melancholy moments. "Dear Old Darling" makes no pretensions beyond those of good, solid entertainment...
...recent banning of "The Children's Hour" from Boston theatres by an arbitrary triumvirate known as the Censorship Board has at last produced a solid opposition to the autocratic method of deciding what the Hub citizenry shall or shall not see on the stage. Yesterday the Massachusetts Theatre Alliance sponsored a bill before the Committee on Mercantile Affairs to climinate the "at their pleasure" clause from the powers granted to the Board in the censorship...
While Prodigy MacMurray was posing with some of the 200 books which he has read since October (see cut), normal four-year undergraduates were given a pat on the back last week by Chicago faculty members as "more deliberate students of solid worth...
...jouncing cage came to a halt. There were running steps outside, a jingle of keys, a clang as the rear doors were opened. "Jump out, you fools! Jump!" cried a voice. The whites of 44 eyes shone in the fire glare as they looked back into a solid wall of flames. Two dark figures staggered back, lurched through the door, fell on the road outside, afire from head to foot. Two white guards rolled them into the snow-filled ditch to put them out. Then the drum of gasoline went up. . . . When a prison official arrived on the scene...
...week were for a junk outwardly orthodox in every detail from the staring eyes on its squat prow to the curling dragons on its 30-foot poop, from the lacquered weathervanes on its raked masts to the enormous rudder. Inside it will be a junk de luxe, built of solid teak with cargo space subdivided into ten double staterooms with connecting baths, main saloon, dining saloon, galley with an electric refrigerator. The forecastle will quarter some 20 Chinese seamen. Subscribing Shipmates subject to seasickness may pay the extra cost of having their bunks hung on gimbals like a binnacle. There...