Word: warms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...institution controlled and oppressed by a government whose treatment of its educators has become notorious throughout the civilized world. At the same time the University will not offend an institution which, despite its Nazi taint, is justly celebrated through Europe. Thus, while Harvard cannot be said to extend the warm grip of friendship she cannot be accused of holding a shillalagh behind her back. Once again the University has steered safely through the tortuous rapids of international entanglements...
...event of a 3rd mule at Warm Springs, may I suggest the name "Perk...
...scene is laid, and the nostalgic charm of the Harte stories. Its worst fault is the failure of explicitness in the last sequence, leaving the audience completely fuddled as to the reason for Oakhurst's suicide. Equally silly are scenes in which the outcasts ride out in warm weather, and a few shots later, without proper time identification, are snowed in, with the Duchess (Margaret Irving) dying from an undetermined cause. Best shot: "Luck" winning a poker hand from Oakhurst...
Heroes of Editor White's editorial page are his fellow-Emporians. They have their foibles but none worth getting really sore about. They need a scolding now & then, but what they need oftenest is a pat on the back, maybe some kidding. In his warm but unmaudlin obituaries, Editor White shows the full measure of their place in his half-Irish heart. Even outside Emporia, where all the worst sinners live, he can always find some good word to say for the dead. Only once in 42 years has a man died in the U. S. about whom...
Byrnes Bomb. Late one afternoon the Senate sat placidly putting the finishing touches on the revised Guffey Coal Bill. Passage within ten minutes seemed assured, and contented Senators' minds were beginning to turn to thoughts of cold drinks and warm supper. In their snug, thick-carpeted little chamber, the storm & strife of tear gas and window-smashings, of roaring, club-waving mass resistance to the Law, seemed pleasantly far away. Day before the Guffey bill windup, New York's New Dealing Robert F. Wagner had presented what was believed to be the Administration viewpoint when he rose...