Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Director Guthrie McClintic deserves high praise for the splendid culminating scene between the cousins. The daughter, who believes her mother is merely an old maiden cousin and whose real attachment is to Delia, is about to marry. For the first time in the long jealous warfare between them. Delia relents, makes the daughter promise to save her last farewell kiss, before she goes on her honeymoon, for Charlotte...
...observed lean, natty B. B. C. Orchestra Conductor Dr. Adrian Boult in Boston last week, ''the 30 or more directors of the various departments of B. B. C. are quite intelligent people. They have quite splendid university degrees, some of them, and they get around a lot. So we really get most of our ideas from each other. We meet, the 30 of us, every day at tea time...
...Heover is excellent at all times, and particularly in the scene in which he drinks to forget that seen his wealth will be confiscated by the damn Communists Ben Smith, as Rand Fliridge, is awkard as a lever, and seems ill at case in the role Jose Ruben is splendid...
...your perfectly splendid report of the bestowing of the Nobel Prize upon Drs. Whipple, Minot & Murphy (TIME, Nov. 5) you referred to the efficacy of apricots, peaches, and prunes in red cell restoration without indicating that it was with dried fruits that Dr. Whipple worked. I call this to your attention, knowing the widespread circulation of TIME and the multitude of cover-to-cover readers who might get the idea that fresh or canned apricots, peaches, and prunes might be just as effective as the dried fruits...
...fears of his Leftish theories, his business career was carefully itemized last week in a long White House release. He had been: 1) one of the founders and longtime head of a $50,000,000 group of Utah and Idaho banks "which came through the banking crisis in such splendid condition as to reflect great credit upon his ability as a bank executive"; 2) president of a big construction company which got fat contracts at Boulder Dam and owns a 300,000-acre ranch with "40,000 sheep and 25,000 cattle"; 3) director of Pet Milk Co.; 4) president...