Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...witty cynic, the blase adventures, the man-hater, the sweet young thing from the South, the inescapable talker, the pair of mediocre pals, the dancer of irrepressible gaiety and the lonesome victim of melancholia. The summary is only partial. If Miss Bennett is not sufficient inducement, it's worth your while to go see this bevy of assorted women in search of artistic careers...
...Stage Door is based on the fairly plausible assumption that the legitimate stage is worth starving for, but that its illegitimate child should be called by the shorter name for such offspring, Miss Bennett as Terry Randall struggles through three acts and six scenes defending that creed. She sees her beau, an ill-mannered thunder-and-lightning radical, get enmeshed in the celluloid toils, and tells him where to go when he tries to sweep her off to his California paradise. She sees her best friend in the Footlight Club, the actress's refuge, escape from failure...
...underprivileged classes, "born of the gospel of Christ.'' That the latter has often gone astray. said the Bishop, should not blind Christians to the fact of the Kingdom of God "... a free fellowship of the children of God ... in [which] every child of God has worth which transcends any economic order. He is not a mere cog in a great industrial machine, his labor a mere commodity. In the vision of God, riches and power count nothing as against family life of the brothers of Christ...
Similar was the fate of $48,000,000 of Bethlehem Steel debentures. In the month beginning Sept. 8 when they were offered, Bethlehem stockholders bought but $2,000,000 worth. Last week, therefore, the underwriters had to take over the remainder of the issue and offer it to the public. The 25 underwriting firms, headed by Kuhn, Loeb & Co., bought the debentures at $98, intending to sell them at $100, thus getting a 2% commission minus expenses. But during the month they were obliged to wait for company stockholders to buy, the market fell so far that last week Bethlehem...
...midst of the debate over the administration of Widener Library, it might be worth the while of undergraduates and librarians alike to pause for a moment and study an actual demonstration of how a library may be run with comfort and hospitality, a paragon which exists strangely enough, within the very walls of Widener...