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...best the class prophets could do for Wanda Werner (Virginia Bruce) of Wendensville, when their forecastings were made public at the commencement dance in the high-school gym, was that she would win the prize at the State fair for the biggest pumpkin. They did not mean to be unkind, but Wanda went home crying. She wanted no fame as a pumpkin grower, dreamed of singing opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 12, 1937 | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...blooded moderns for whom the only racy element in politics is verbal abuse, is the sight of a presidential candidate coming down from his parlor to exchange black eyes with the maligner of his backwoods wife, or, when president, firing his whole cabinet because they and their wives whisper unkind things about his favorite Peggy O'Neal. The career of this strong-minded young man is this essence of the picture: her service as inn-keeper's daughter rendered to Andrew Jackson and his Rachel, and to the brilliant states rights squabblers, Danial Webster and John Randolph of Virginia...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/13/1936 | See Source »

...longer with reason utter the peppery denunciations of the conduct of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. which used to keep him constantly before the public. A relieved good-by to Dr. Machen & Co. was said last week by the Presbyterian Banner: "We have no unkind feelings toward these brethren but hope they will treat one another better than they have treated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Exit Machen | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

...begrudge the Physics department across the way from Paine Hall their ten odd electric water coolers for drinking fountains might be thought unkind by the S. P. C. A. But to the average mind, it does seem at least strange that a building with such crass luxuries should rub elbows with the physical poverty of a distinguished, if small, department like Music. The petition, printed on page one today, does not exaggerate the handicap that the present hole of a library offers to undergraduates and graduate alike. It totally neglects to state that a large part of all the scores...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WORM TURNS | 4/30/1936 | See Source »

...verses the very unkind suspicion that Mr. Loveman did well to entitle the verses, "Dream Song" in which the following lines occur...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 3/7/1936 | See Source »

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