Word: spiller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where he married an American heiress.* He found the U. S. changed-for the better-but the U. S. found no change in him. Still the urbane, witty image of Cinemactor Dudley Digges in appearance, expression and tone of voice, still a great teller of racy stories and amiable spiller of confidences, he wasted no bitterness last week on the men that so hastily and so clumsily deserted his country. His chief criticism of the Munich deal, said he in private, was that "It lacked skill, elegance. It was so, what shall I say, middle class...
...Sunday Afternoon (by James Hagan; Leo Peters & Leslie J. Spiller, producers). Here is a play sure in its unpretentious telling of a wholesome, sometimes humorous, sometimes moving story. A frieze of homely figures on a Mid-western ground, One Sunday Afternoon opens in the shabby dental parlor of Biff Grimes. D. D. S. (Lloyd Nolan, an able new-comer). Stimulated by an old crony, a bottle of rye and innumerable repetitions of "in the good old summer time." Biff's imagination reaches sadly back to his youth in another little town. Nostalgia gives way to intemperate anger when...
Other course to be presented by visiting professors are "English Critical Prose of the Nineteenth Century" by Professor R. E. Spiller of Swarthmore College; "History of English Literature from 1700 to 1740" by Professor J. W. Draper of West Virginia University; "The Romantic Period in Music" and "Musical Appreciation" by Professor R. D. Welch of Smith College: "Modern Developments in Physics" by Professor R. A. Patterson of Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute; "The Philosophy of Evolution" by Professor E. G. Spaulding of Princeton University: "The British Commonwealth of Nations" and "The Recent History of England, 1878-1930" by Professor L. M. Larson...