Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...race and sex. In many places Filipinos are "problem children" for Pacific Coast authorities. To the intense dismay of race-conscious Californians these little brown men not only have a preference for white girls, particularly blondes, but have even established to many a white cirl's satisfaction their superior male attractions...
Last week, when Superior Judge Joseph Jerome Trabucco saw no reason for a fourth trial and set him free, Lamson lost his calm, stumbled weeping from the courtroom to see his 5-year-old daughter, Allene Genevieve. Bashful at first in the presence of a person she scarcely knew, Allene soon dropped her shyness, clasped her father in her arms, cried: "Oh, Daddy, where are you going to sleep...
...peculiarly high proportion of outstanding faculty men to concentrators makes it posible for tutees to be sure of superior tutorial instruction. Uusually no tutor is less than a professor and no tutor has more than eight tutees. This highly desirable relationship coupled with the fact that the faculty men acting as tutors in this department have, apparently, a greater personal interest in teaching than is generally true of the larger departments, indicates that the tutorial system functions better here than in most fields...
...Trail of the Lonesome Pine" has the makings of a superior "Kentucky Beautiful" travelogue (though undoubtedly not photographed in the Blue Grass country); as a feature picture it is entertaining, little more. It is the familiar story of book larnin's invasion of the back woods. The grizzled mountaineers fight and live and love after the fashion of "Esquire's" variety, and are somehow trying to one's credulity. Sylvia Sidney, as the barefoot lass who succumbs to the winning ways of the furriner from the city (Fred MacMurray) and forsakes Mammy and Pappy for the bosoms of the edjicated...
...fame by demolishing the French fleet in Aboukir Bay. Then the Hero of the Nile led his fleet into the Bay of Naples, and there he stayed, in spite of the welcome (and the patient wife) awaiting him at home, in spite of hints and finally orders from his superior officers. When a French-abetted revolution broke out in Naples, Nelson transported the court and the Hamiltons to Sicily. When the revolution faded out he brought them back again, helped to exact such a treacherous and bloody vengeance that it nearly cost him his hero's popularity in England...