Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...absorb what he is saying, I go to sleep. The other day I got out of a nine o'clock at a quarter to two, and then only because the janitor tried to dust off my feet. And now with the first November Hours coming the twentieth of October, and with me asleep half the time, I'm worried. Things are so bad that I even go to sleep in tutoring school, and they haven't any janitor there. And I do so want to stay in college. Scared stiff, N. Cephalitis...
...picture of Denver and the Rocky Mountains which make up the locale of the tale is vividly drawn, if perhaps almost a little too modern for credulity. Possibly this is part of the charm of the book since, although we of today cannot imagine such happenings in a Twentieth Century such happenings in a Twentieth Century world, we nevertheless realize the similarity of character and emotion which has persisted through the rough and oftentimes crude period of our early history. Because these men are not historical characters and therefore were not great and unusual men, we appreciate even more that...
...film-rights share, cutting the play manager's accordingly. Hollywood, accustomed to making the manager a dummy figure and further controlling play property destinies by entering into noncompetitive bidding accords with other studios, promptly stopped backing plays. Simultaneously seven studios (Warner Bros., Universal, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Twentieth Century-Fox, Paramount, RKO-Radio, Columbia) set up the Bureau of New Plays, with canny Theresa Helburn (see p. 55) at the helm, offered advances on royalties, fellowships; hoped to corner young talent. Now in its second year, the Bureau has paid awards, but has so far found no play worth producing...
...twentieth of the Harvard alumni live outside the United States, the register shows. A total of 3,006 live in 83 foreign countries, and 256 live in U. S. territories and possessions...
Wife, Doctor and Nurse (Twentieth Century-Fox) is an amazingly fresh version of the triangle indicated in its tired title. That any plot as old as this (most recent prior use: MGM's Between Two Women) can be given a new dress is a minor miracle of screen technique. It has been achieved by application of the dramatic law which holds that any situation becomes new if the characters involved make it inevitable. Steve (Virginia Bruce) never asked herself whether she loved her boss, Dr. Judd Lewis (Warner Baxter) until the day his young wife Ina (Loretta Young) took...