Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refuses to give in, and he commits suicide. The child is abducted by the relentless grandparent. The expected meeting with his mother takes place in a French house of ill-repute, during the war, where her clean life has finally rewarded her with the job of madame. The worldly-wise young soldier reforms, when he learns that it is his mother who has confessed to his murder, and they depart for happiness in America, as Money-bags leaves the courtroom with a frown of frustration...
...swing, catapults to a trapeze which her husband, the great Alfredo, has just left.* Alfredo, leaving without kicking back the trapeze, plunges over her and catches his brother's hands at the dizzy instant of pause before the backswing. Painter Curry liked second best the wise-eyed Riding Clown (Orrin Davenport) waiting for his turn in the ring in orange derby, tie and wig, his red putty nose outlined against a blue night sky. Critics last week admired Curry's feat (as difficult as the Passing Leap) of getting the circus' gaudy, pastel colors in oils. Circus...
World Reaction-But it was too late. In the U. S. some 300 cities held protest meetings, the most important of which, in New York, was attended by almost everyone from Rabbi Stephen S. Wise to Bishop Manning and Alfred E. Smith. Rabbis throughout the country announced a day of fasting and prayer. Wholesalers cancelled-thousands of dollars worth of orders. The Europa announced that at least 25 steamship cancellations were due to Nazi terrorism. Other German lines admitted as many but claimed that the banking moratorium-had had more than a little to do with it. French & British importers...
...preferring a certain House, deserves particular attention, for if possible, as the CRIMSON pointed out last week, no man should be kept out of a House if he has a logical and sound reason for wishing to enter it. Secondly, it is justly pointed out that Freshmen will be wise to play safe by applying in groups, so that they may be assured of the companionship of certain friends. Every effort should be made by the committee to put these groups intact into one or another House...
...Fascism of Hitler is based largely on the consciousness of race, as the Fascism of Massolini is based largely on the consciousness of the abstract state. Under such conditions any important racial group in the German community will inevitably be resented and discriminated against. But Bishop Manning, Rabbi Wise, and the Nation might reach a saner perspective if they reviewed some of the more obvious features of the Treaty of Versailles. That Germany's government now rests upon the Function of the governed is in great measure the result of our own insistence. That such a government reacts...