Word: vein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most pleasing to Britain. It promised that Il Duce will not raise a great Ethiopian army of conscript blacks -the one thing Britain fears, since with it Italy might upset the balance of power in Africa-and concluded in Benito Mussolini's nearest approach to a dove-cooing vein: "Italy will consider it an honor to inform the League of Nations of the progress achieved in her work of civilizing Ethiopia. . . . Italy views this work as a sacred mission and proposes to carry it out according to the principles of the League Covenant...
...item is Robert Hitchcock's now famous "Thirty-Nine Steps," a superbly exciting mystery film in the very best Hitchcock manner. Robert Donst and the very lovely Madeleine Carroll play the romantic leads in a story which surges through a series of thrilling escapades all kept in the lighter vein by a steady flow of genuinely amusing dialogue. Probably the last chance to see a definitely out of the ordinary picture. The companion piece is amply entitled "Biography of a Bachelor Girl," the original stage title "Biography" apparently possessing too little of that certain lift which brings the boys rushing...
...GOOSE ON THE CAPITOL-Leonard Bacon-Harper ($1.50). In light satiric vein, Poet Bacon airily smites the political hydra of a Presidential year...
...still alive, about whether he will go mad and betray himself, his comrades. In the darkness, he makes speeches, imagines music. After a while he feels the risk of insanity too near, decides to kill himself. But his finger nails are not yet sharp enough to open a vein; he tries to sharpen them on the wall, then sees he will have to let them grow a little longer. Finally he hears a tapping on the wall, makes out the fragment of a message: TAKE COURAGE ONE CAN ... The message is interrupted by the muffled noises of guards beating someone...
...most cursory reader of the articles written for the Crimson by the deans of the graduate schools cannot but be impressed by the optimistic vein of the contributions so far published. Nearly every dean discussed facts and figures of employment and special problems related to his field with wholly admirable address and frankness...