Word: standingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What saves "Suez" from being a glorified Punch and Judy show is the acting of Annabelle. Although her role is not easy, the talented French actress brings to it a sincerity and simplicity that stand out in bold relief against the sentimental strutting of an all puppet cast. Glenda Farrell, in the latest of her "Torchy Blain" series, is perhaps an even greater relief...
James M. Landis, Dean of the Law School, made flying trips all over the city throughout the day checking up on practices at the various precincts. Sevven cases of violation of the rule requiring that solicitors at the polls should not stand nearer than 150 feet to the voting places were reported to the police after protests to stop this were not heeded by the precinct wardens...
...Governor General, and Australia declined with thanks. A lot of trouble has turned up in the world since then, however, what with the Italians showing their muscle in the Mediterranean, the Germans down the Danube and the Japanese all over the Far East. It behooves the Empire to stand fast, and a great cementing gesture was made last week when George VI was graciously pleased to appoint H. R. H. the Duke of Kent to go out to Canberra in November 1939 and take over the job George V could not get for Gloucester...
When the new building of the U. S. Department of Labor was opened in Washington in 1935, an exhibition of 15 paintings dignified it. They were by John Kane, Pittsburgh laborer and house painter whose canvases stand alone in U. S. art as monumental documents of the Monongahela and Allegheny Valley steel country. An Irishman, who grew up working in Scottish mines and came to the U. S. at 19, Kane was unknown as an artist until he was past 60. He died in 1934 at 74. This week the rugged, blue-eyed, peg-legged man's extraordinary autobiography...
...students turned to the Terpsichorean Monday when they acted as supernumeraries for the Ballet Russe of Monte Carlo, which was making a one-might stand in New Haven...