Word: treating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a combination of George Bernard Shaw and Broadway's leading exponents of free love romping across the screen at the University Theatre, the current bill is an especially gay affair. It's a rare and happy treat to find two such grade A pictures as "Yes, My Darling Daughter" and "Pygmalion" on the same showing...
...Newcastle, England, an importunate salesman sold Mrs. E. Renwick a refrigerator, had the law on her when she was unable to pay the installments. Snorted the indignant judge: "The only way to treat people who badger for sales is to take them by the scruff of the neck and kick them as hard as possible on the soft part of their anatomy." Verdict: Mrs. Renwick can have 2,160 years...
...former world . . . we could entirely disregard the question of aggression and treat both sides with perfect impartiality without trying to make any inquiry into the rights and wrongs. . . . But today the fact of systematized aggression stares us in the face and we know only too well who the aggressors are. . . . We only have to read about some of the occurrences to the South of us to realize that even we are within the zone of their orbit...
...Conductor Stokowski, back in Philadelphia on a return engagement, rounded out the sixth season of Philadelphia's Youth Concerts. Three thousand youngsters crammed the aged Academy of Music. (This season's tickets were all sold out two hours after they were placed on sale.) As a special treat Stokowski gave them a world premiere: Alexander Gretchaninoff's Fifth Symphony. Then, as one adolescent, the whole audience sang Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott, Schubert's Ave Maria and a brand-new Philadelphia Youth Song to music by Sibelius. Maestro Stokowski called for more jive...
...Pikeville (pop. 3,376), in the drab, hilly, coal-mining country at Kentucky's eastern point, its First National Bank is a wonder that never pales. First National's employes, who start at $85 a month and get four-week vacations, try "to treat each customer as if he was their mother or father or sister or brother." All day every day, customers are entertained not only by the organ but by a 23-tube radio phonograph, playing in subdued tones requests ranging from Toscanini to Whiteman...