Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Premier Mussolini has allowed the aristocratic Senate to continue its obedient, decorative existence, even though some of its functions have been assumed by the Council. About 95% of the Senators are now Fascists. The 5% who are antiFascists (like Benedetto Croce, the philosopher) know enough to stay away...
...stunt is never so startling the second time, and The Hot Mikado, though much more audacious than the Federal Theatre version, suffers from tagging at its heels. Further, when the Swing Mikado is willing to let itself go, it becomes a gayer and more abandoned romp. But simply as a show, The Hot Mikado wins hands down. It is gaudy, glittering, foot-wise, fast. It spurns Gilbert & Sullivan's Savoy operas for Harlem's Savoy ballroom. It is less profitably compared with the Swing Mikado than with such spirited colored shows as Blackbirds of 1928, Shuffle Along...
...successful, efficient, intelligent, respectable bankers, businessmen, industrialists, community leaders, architects, engineers, etc., who build up a World's Fair in 1939-though they probably have a good many erotic activities-would attach very little significance to the physical relationship between a man and a woman...
...usual when the golden tide laps high on U. S. shores, reporters went to see Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau. As usual, he pooh-poohed the idea of inflation. But though he said the gold was not affecting U. S. economy, it was amply clear that the continued European crisis was. Markets were nervous. Businessmen cut their buying for the future so low that three new indexes of inventories published by the National Industrial Conference Board touched the lowest point since May 1937. Most cheerful fact of the week (to businessmen): the sales ratio of twin beds to double beds...
Statistics--especially those found in the vicinity of University Hall--have a depressing habit of being dull and uninformative. Now and then, however, a set of facts and figures can be gathered that tells an interesting story; and, incredible though it may seem at first glance, such is the case in the realm of undergraduate concentration and distribution...