Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fraternities there has come to be no distinction between the waiters and the non-waiters. Waiters are disposed to think themselves neither superior nor inferior to the other men. This is probably brought about by the fact that each fraternity, as far as possible employs its own members as waiters, and consequently the waiters and those they serve are more congenial...
Thus Communist propaganda will continue to be fomented in the U. S. by the U. S. Workers' Party whose avowedly Communist leaders will continue their close liaison with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Comintern, Third International or World Communist Party which is technically superior to both and retains its Moscow headquarters. On the other hand, M. Litvinoff promised that "it will be the fixed policy of the Government" of Russia (he could not promise for the Party headed by Josef Stalin) to "refrain" in the most scrupulous manner from any interference in U. S. affairs...
...Footlight Parade" seems to suffer from a comparison with "Forty Second Street," or the golddigger balderdash. The plot is thin, the songs are only fair. Ruby Keeler, Joan Blondell, and James Cagney are adequate in their parts. But they show a superior attitude to all the implausible nonsense: It is not in good taste, nor is it just to the public if great artists are insincere. What deserve praise are the photography and the ensemble dances on such a large scale that, were he living, Ziegfeld would feel like a cheapskate if he saw them...
...suit brought against Film Actress Claire Windsor by Marian Read in Los Angeles for alienating the affections of Broker Alfred C. Read Jr. (TIME, Sept. 25): decision by Superior Judge J. P. Sproul that the jury's award of $75,000 against Actress Windsor "was so grossly excessive and unreasonable as to raise the presumption of passion and prejudice." He ordered a new trial...
...their "spy business," Harpo finds three opportunities to run after young women. Chico successfully restrains him. When Chico is tried by Freedonia's supreme court, Groucho feels sorry for him. "This abject specimen . . ." he says. Says Chico: "I abject." When Freedonia finally gets into war, its armies are superior to those of most mythical kingdoms because they contain monkeys and elephants, but they sustain a shameful, shattering defeat...