Word: underworlds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Academy's later building at Broad and Cherry Streets. To the sculptor who hewed and chiseled her broad figure in the time of Praxiteles, she represented not Roman Ceres but Greek Demeter, "earth mother," goddess of fertility, mother of Persephone whom Pluto carried off to the underworld. One of the few pieces of ancient Greek sculpture which have been left outdoors since discovery, Ceres has been getting blacker every year in Philadelphia's smoky air, has finally begun to crumble. To protect passersby, Academy President Alfred G. B. Steel last week had scaffolding put up around...
King of Gamblers (Paramount). A newshawk (Lloyd Nolan) and a nightclub singer (Claire Trevor) unraveling some fascinating underworld homicides perpetrated by Akim Tamiroff...
...Today's question: In the light of your currently professed friendship for Mr. Roosevelt's policies, Mr. Shaw, why do the labor-baiting Los Angeles Times, the howling Hearst press, the local Liberty Leaguers, the Partisan non-partisan Republicans, the professional patriots, the underworld forces and all the reactionary elements, which in 1936 waged a slanderous, slimy, insolent, stupid and disastrous communistic campaign against President Roosevelt, plus a few nominal Democrats of mercenary inclination, now wage precisely the same sort of campaign against me and in support of you, as they supported Merriam in 1934 and Landon...
...Cedric Hardwicke. The amazing doctor has undertaken a part-time life of crime not for gain but to examine at first hand the pathology of crime. How his clinical studies lead him into more trouble than he had bargained for makes a felicitous tale as amusing as the nursery underworld it describes...
LIFE STORY-Mark Benney-Random House ($2.50). Autobiography of a London harlot's son who spent half his youth in jail, the rest of it learning night life and the underworld; the whole made horrible by being written in consciously intellectual style...