Word: vitals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Though the music is delightful and the photography well above the average, the film suffers from the usual ill of operettas, an overdose of sentimentality. The love of Wolfgang and Friederike was not one of heroic proportions, and throughout one has the conviction that Goethe's career is more vital to him than Friederike's love, a belief which is incompstible with deep enjoyment of a romance. Mady Christians as the unfortunate heroine adds another to her imposing list of excellent performances...
...rise in income taxes is the grievance of the hour, but the bonus legislation and the simultaneous Phillipine legislation should be considered along side of it. For these three acts of Congress, considered in relation to one another, illustrate the startling level of weakness into which this body, so vital to democracy has returned. The bonus legislation over the President's veto has been branded as cowardly by most of the reputable newspapers in the country. The present tax levy is, of course, the direct result of this lobbied legislation; and the adoption of the Finance Committee's Phillipine amendment...
...TIME failed to report the [Paris] Peace Conference (theoretically transposing 1919 with 1934) it would be a grievous news fumble. Yet TIME has failed to report an analogous situation which is tremendously vital to the trend of our chaotic economic course...
...long chance of saving Benjamin Hendrick, whose back, thighs and upper arms are already hard as rock, if his parathyroids can be stimulated to check the flow of calcium. But most of the doctors at his bedside believe the hardening will go on & on until it reaches some vital organ and stops it for good...
...spite of the high standard of living and undeniably high costs of the process inaugurated by the House Plan, one vital cog in the works has never functioned with perfect precision. The weighty problem of meals has not been satisfactorily solved by the introduction of model kitchens and natty dining halls, and in spite of a dietician the three squares are generally of an order which would do credit to the lower carnivora. Not a meal but is dominated by the flesh-pots, the quantity of animal products far exceeding the two ounces recommended by the Hygiene department. The vegetable...