Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Educators in the United States have often been accused of gross extravagance. Mr. H. L. Menckerr and others have bitterly denounced what they consider the too splendid buildings, gymnasium, swimming pools, and manual training shop of city and even rural schools. The present crisis in education, they say, is the direct result of lavish expenditure in better times, when boards of educations piled up huge bonded indebtedness. Now, with no money and less credit, the educators are paying for the sins of their predecessors...
...exchange scholars are smiled upon in all universities. A little leavening with the loaf is not a bad idea, and a touch of Middle Western initiative and drive transferred to the soporific Cambridge atmosphere would be eminently helpful, while the Harvard enunciation and pronunciation would of course be splendid in dear old Joliet...
...Hollywood musicomedies, its narrative method stodgy, but are likely to approve the decor, Frederic Norton's music, the acting of the only performer in the cast whose name is familiar to them. Anna May Wong wriggles her eyebrows ably when placed on the slave auction-block, writhes in splendid style when compelled to turn the winch that opens the door of the robbers' cave...
...NIGHT OF LOVE--This one misses A rating simply because of a silly title. Probably the first motion picture to bring opera to the screen without losing its effectiveness and still retain the average movie-goer's interest. Grace Moore in splendid voice. (Tullio Carminati Lyle Talbot...
...blamed for the slowness of recovery. With minimum wages set so high, manufacturers have raised their prices before the consumer could meet them. The result has been that leaders of industry have been losing confidence in its success, and once this happens success becomes practically impossible. No matter how splendid the ideas may be that the leaders of a democracy may hold, they become useless if the citizens of that democracy do not believe them too. Thus, the final test in this country depends upon what the President and his aides can make the people think, not what they believe...