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Word: stilles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modulation in the third section. All very well are the procedural provisions proposed as far as they go. But the Committee suffers, nay endorses the autocracy which often dictates appointments at present. Younger men are to be consulted and will vote on their peers. But the motive force will still come from the chairman of the department-still imposed from above and not elected--and his older colleagues. It is perhaps unfortunate that the report say fit to disdain the recommendations of the Teachers' Union for more formal democracy within the departments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EIGHT DELIVERERS | 3/31/1939 | See Source »

...directing is smooth, although the first act could be improved by cutting long speeches that leave the actors breathless and the audience a little bewildered. In these days of powerhouse realism and bitter satire, Oscar Wilde has the faintly cloying fragrance of too much old lavender; but he is still amusing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT THE WILBUR | 3/28/1939 | See Source »

...clubmen have given them a fine score, good lyrics, a passable book and amusing stage sets; if they remind Mr. Lilley that he is not directing for Earl Carroll, they can make a good show out of it before it hits Boston. Even if they don't it will still be fair enough...

Author: By C. L. B., | Title: The Playgoer | 3/28/1939 | See Source »

...centre, Cooper Union), heiress to $10,000,000; and one Gene Bradstreet, 23; she for the second time; in Reno. In 1936 Heiress Hewitt started suit against her mother for tricking her into being sterilized, allowed the suit to languish because "no matter what she is, she's still my mother." Next year she married Ronald Gay, onetime automobile mechanic, lived with him a few months, sued him for divorce. Recently she has been living at El Cortez, swank San Francisco apartment hotel, under the name of Mrs. Howell. Last fall she bleached her hair platinum, left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 27, 1939 | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...their crop in the barns, while the Trust offers bribe prices to growers who do not belong. When recalcitrant growers refuse to join the Association, they are warned. After two warnings, masked night riders drag them out of bed, force them to destroy their own plant beds. If they still play ball with the Trust, their barns are burned. When the Trust strikes back, 2,000 armed growers march into Bardsville, seize the telephone and telegraph offices, lock up police and firemen, burn the brand-new million-dollar Trust warehouses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tobacco War | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

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