Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, 90, was home with an attack of lumbago. Though he later returned to the bench, his absence caused a tremor of apprehension to run through the court. His colleagues had noticed that Mr. Justice Holmes's shoulders were a little more stooped, that his step was a little more feeble, that he sat and rose with a little more difficulty. During this term Mr. Justice Holmes has been more silent, less smiling than usual. Rarely now does he interrupt an arguing attorney with a barbed question or a comment flashing with...
...Ticket (Fox). Balancing the propaganda of imported cinemas which show the Utopian workings of the Five-Year Plan, U. S. producers often display Russia, most frequently pre-revolution Russia, as a hobgoblin empire in which misery had plenty of company and none of the inhabitants was more than one step removed from the Siberian salt-mines. The Yellow Ticket, an estimable antiquity, full of perils for Elissa Landi, shows what might have happened in old Russia when a young girl took it into her head to pay a visit to her convict father...
...consequences of this step may be far-reaching. If the films succeed in Sociology, they may push forward into other fields...
...plan is to create a modest permanent collection as the nucleus around which loan exhibitions of worthwhile German originals can from time to time be grouped. As silver sparkles and bright paint shines, the museum takes on fresh interest. Some will decry this rejuvenation of the Fogg's "poor step-sister" as a concession to casual taste; but in an age when so many interests compete for attention, it appears a legitimate way of making Mr. Busch's gift a going concern...
...approval of Mr. Wood's letter stating that "The Harvard undergraduates, recognizing the widespread unemployment, and eager to make some contribution to benefit those out of work, etc,". Without wishing to appear like the famous dog-in-the-manager, I nevertheless question the sagacity and prudence of this step...