Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must give the makers of "Looking for Trouble" credit for originality, at least. To build a movie around the institution of telephone trouble shooting, to drag in a couple of sweet love affairs, a murder, no end of fist-fights, and much mad dashing about, is fairly usual; but to wind it all up by shooting a gun which starts an earthquake which hits the lady villain on the head with a multitude of bricks and induces her to confess her sins, thereby saving the lives of all the nice people, is a stroke of sheer genius. Besides that, Jack...
...reflects the fact instanter. Above the cubicle's door one well might read, "Abandon hope all ye who enter here." Something must be done about this. Have we no Kohler among our Alumni? Then let a bowl, a basin, be passed about through all House Dining Rooms and let sweet charity flow into it that we may be the godlier. For if results are not forthcoming from this plea for succor we threaten--and it is no idle threat--to descend on masse on Fair Harvard and scourge the place with measles; and we have measles to spare. Woe therefore...
When the Louisville Courier-Journal was owned and edited by the late "Marse" Henry Watterson, he thought nothing of calling Theodore Roosevelt "as sweet a gentleman as ever scuttled a ship or cut a throat." President Roosevelt thought nothing of it either. When he returned to private life, he and Watterson dined together on the best of terms. Last week the acting editor of the Courier-Journal, now owned by Robert Worth Bingham, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, got into a serious scrape for much less daring impudence...
...Neibuhr insists that the Marxists will be hamstrung in their practical politics until they have abandoned their crusade against the churches, just as the churches will lose intellectual caste unless they reach a compromise with political revolution. He has not deluded himself in the hope that sweet reasonableness will actually prevail, nor has he succeeded in drawing up a program for the agreement which he sees as necessary. But he has accomplished another and scarcely less valuable task, by throwing the problem into sharp relief, and by forming the basis for an intelligent understanding of the relation between the dominant...
...story is stuffed like a haggis with hearty anecdotes: the practical joker who put a fresh-killed pig in the bed of the town drunkard; the man who could find no peace & quiet in his quarrelsome house, took his evening paper out in the graveyard to read; the sweet Alice who was known as "the Roarer and Greeter," not because she was hospitable but because anything out-of-the-way made her roar and greet (howl and cry); the town villain's tale of Robbie Burns's entry into heaven...