Word: supportable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Reflected Glory" means Tallulsh Bankhead's glory reflected upon Tallulah Bankhead. Most commendably, however, Miss Bankhead's star is made to shine, not through the familiar expedient of excluding capable support, but rather through the skillful writing of George Kelly, with the maximum of adaptation to the peculiar talents of a peculiar artist. The actress is cast as an actress, and that leads to all sorts of dainty nuances. Sometimes Miss Bankhead acts the conscious actress, sometimes the unconscious actress, and sometimes she just acts...
Since there is no possible support for a would-be trapeze artist except a thin pipe suspended eight inches from the roof, men on the fifth floor were stumped for an explanation. One observer was inclined to ascribe the phenomenon to an advanced knowledge of the principles of levitation...
...release the cargo and Fascist passenger of the liberated Palos. In Berlin it was also said in official quarters that Der Führer had sent General Wilhelm Faupel, the "German envoy to the Spanish Government of President Franco" hurrying back to Spain with official assurances of further German support for the Whites. Simultaneously about 10,000 additional Italians landed in Spain to join up with Generalissimo Franco- this mere 10,000 being what II Duce last week meant by "going easy" (see p. 20). In London the anti-Fascist and pro-Socialist Daily Herald raged: "There is a Levantine...
...merely reappearing last week in fresh forms. The central reality behind all was merely that China has approached a point at which her leaders are considering open war with Japan, and they know that no Chinese leader can make even a partial success of such a war without Communist support from two sources:1) Chinese Communists and 2) the Soviet Union...
Into Chicago's big commercial Palmer House 1,500 delegates of the Music Teachers National Association and other music bigwigs swarmed last week to spend four days arguing and agreeing, airing big plans and uttering big grievances. U. S. Commissioner of Education John Ward Studebaker urged them to support a proposed $98,000 budget for the new U. S. Department of Music & Fine Arts. The teachers managed to agree, and raised $1,100. They showed less agreement but much more emotion when Leo Fischer, executive secretary of the American Guild of Musical Artists, appealed for the Dickstein Bill which...