Word: weak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because of the simplicity of the play, a good deal of old-fashioned proverbialism is expressed with considerable force, but nowhere does the play flatter itself into searching after Truth. The weak and henpecked husband, and the wilful, self-seeking, and unattractive wife and elder daughter are all foiled in the end when the younger sister marries the hero, and Mr. Connelly and a forger are thwarted in their attempt to swindle Miss Lord and dupe the world of art; the most admirable touch of all is that the benevolently paternal and sophisticated art critic of the Herald Tribune brings...
...Republic and the Academy send felicitations. The old folks coo and hold hands. Whereupon appears Louise Morel (Fay Bainter), the playwright's secretary in his earlier days. Off go the wigs and greasepainted wrinkles as Mile Morel begins to tell her story of how Mme Catalan once had a weak moment with an actor and M. Morel once betrayed his wife with his amanuensis. But when the fade-back has concluded and the young people have become old people again, the Catalans agree to apply the statute of limitations to their respective follies, continue to dodder their happy way along...
Last year's strong Freshman team is expected to bolster up a rather weak Varsity with but a few returning veterans. N. P. Dodge '33, captain of the cross country team, Arthur Foote, II '33, J. C. Grady '33, Richard Bassett '34, Alfred Kidder, II '33, and J. J. Healey '34, are the outstanding lettermen around whom the team will be built...
...President is to the University what the heart is to an animal body. With a weak heart the animal does not die, but its life is a flabby and slothful one hardly preferable to death. With a man of only moderate ability at its head Harvard would go on as one of the great universities. But in order that a Harvard education may be a vitalizing and rightly directive force in the lives of the University's graduates, the new President must be a man of outstanding character and original vision. There is a real opportunity here...
...land had lugged out all the Democratic Cabinet timber available. Public interest centered chiefly around the State and Treasury portfolios. Last week Secretary of State Stimson announced that he was ready to coach his successor as soon as he was appointed. For this No. i job President-elect Roosevelt, weak on foreign affairs, needs a particularly able Secretary with an expert international knowledge. President Harding had such a man in Charles Evans Hughes. The favorite candidate for Democratic Secretary of State, at least with the Press, is Owen D. Young. Three other well-qualified gentlemen: John William Davis, onetime Ambassador...