Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plot is woven about the slim thread of the Yokel Boy's success in Hollywood and his sweetheart's -- Miss January -- failure therein. Thin though it is, the story might easily support a shorter play with the aid of its already first-rate score, its lavish settings, and its nifty costumes. By this time it's probably a good show...
...Theatres, in 1930, was among those elevated to a knighthood on King George's birthday honors list. Forgiven, if not forgotten was his 40-year-old gibe: "Knighthood is a cheap commodity these days. It is modern Royalty's substitute for largesse and it is scattered broadcast. Though all would sneer at it, there are few whose hands would not gladly grasp the dingy patent...
Last week, thirteen days before the Yale-Harvard race, Cartoonist Caniff received a wire. Even though The Dragon Lady had been to Yale, could Harvard have her picture for the boathouse? Cartoonist Caniff-who went to Ohio State-rushed it off (see cut). Yale had not been heard from at week...
...manage. The rest of Service Entrance is a chronicle-somewhat humorless, written in upstairs rather than backstairs English-of abuse, exploitation, wretched servants' quarters, meals on leftovers, petty impositions, large-scale cheating. (Young Mr. Carter, a febrile, Napo-Iconic financier, was the most egregious character of the lot: though he was rich enough to keep a yacht, he diddled the Goritzins out of $1,200 in wages and loans...
...consequence of circumstances which need not be related here, President Conant recently outlined to me one aspect of the University's appointment policy which, though special, seems to have an important bearing on the general situation. In my opinion, President Conant could quite properly have touched on this matter in his letter referred to above, since it involves all the essential elements of the difficult problem of academic appointment and tenure. At least, by so doing, he would have given an important clue to his thinking on that problem...