Word: validation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Torch Song. Few playwrights excel Kenyon Nicholson (The Barker, Eva the Fifth) in exploiting honkytonk, backstage or carnival scenes. Few producers can put on a better show of this sort than Arthur Hopkins, who directed and helped write Burlesque. A Hopkins-Nicholson collaboration has now resulted in an extraordinarily valid and impressive play called Torch Song...
...spite of the denial, Welt am Abend (Communist organ) persisted in circulating as valid news coming "from a highly placed authority" the report that Old Paul was secretly forming a militaristic cabal, which would permanently dissolve the Reichstag, erect a formal dictatorship...
...about the escape of a gorilla. He is ably assisted and at times equaled by laconic Tom Howard and insanely grinning David Chasen. But the main amusement is by Cook and enough people like it to permit its classification, now for the first time in the cinema, as a valid individual outcropping of U. S. humor. The story is a wandering anecdote about a pretty girl who owns a tent and is loved by Cook. Denouement: the tent burning down, the heroine hanging by the ankles in midair, Cook rushing in to save...
...years earlier the Pilgrims had landed at Plymouth without a valid charter. Not until they did they merge with the Massacheusetts Bay Colony at Boston...
...benefit our sick and disabled men. . . . But I want a square deal between veterans-not unjust discriminations between special groups, and I do not want wasteful or unnecessary expenditures. . . . This measure is a radical departure . . . into the field of pension to men who have incurred disabilities . . . having no valid relation to their military service. . . . The legal 'presumption' [of War disability up to 1930] is not a physical possibility and constitutes a wholly false and fictitious basis for legislation in veterans...