Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offered by the Somerset, Beacon Hill, and the Brattles. The trim uniforms, the electric response to crisp commands, the venerable joke about the mule, these combine to give a sense of purpose, a promise of a definite future, which makes the academic student, preparing himself for a dim and uncertain path, wonder...
Crickard is still unlikely to start next Saturday, and although Grady was Jogging around in a white shirt yesterday, it is also doubtful whether he will be in condition before next week. Francisco is now definitely out of the coming battle with the Bruins, while Schumann and Casale are uncertain of a place in the game. All in all, it is more in the reserves that Harvard is hit than in the first string players...
Combining the marriage, divorce, and remarriage plot that made "Private Lives" such a delightfully uncertain nightmare, "Springtime for Henry" also introduces the libertine bachelor caught in the threes of "a pure love for a pure woman." There are some really excellent opportunities here for wit, satire, and unrestrained nonsense which Benn Levy utilizes to their full possibilities. Free from the elements of moral responsibility, and the philosophy of Bortrand Russell which ruin some very effective comic situations in "Cynara," this farce is not diluted with any common-sense...
...introducing the audience to Jim Londos. and then finding that he has mistaken an unknown lady in the third row. for the onetime champion wrestler (see p. 22). While one part of the audience blushes and the other part guffaws. Comedian Berle proceeds to imitate a person of uncertain gender, quip about the show girls' fundaments, shout depraved announcements into a loudspeaker. Less mad than Jimmy Durante, less subtle than Willie Howard, Comedian Berle's horrid humor is noisily unique. He seems to get a great deal...
Unless a Republican administration is returned to power, Saltonstall intimated that business and financial conditions throughout the country would be precipitated into confusion by the uncertain and faulty economic policies of the Democratic Party, and that opportunities for economic advancement would be seriously threatened. He lauded President Hoover's opening speech in his campaign for reelection as a penetrating analysis of the economic ills that have faced the United States during the last four years, and as a striking justification of the Republican struggle to alleviate and terminate the effects of the depression...