Word: disproportionate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Devil-Doll (Metro -Goldwyn -Mayer) is the most ambitious effort ever undertaken in the use of the long-known but seldom-employed technique of photographic disproportion. Lavond (Lionel Barrymore) gets back to Paris from an undeserved sojourn on Devil's Island with a handy means of vengeance on...
In the Genesee Valley, Author Carmer went to revival meetings where the hysterical confessions of repentant sinners ranged from the grotesque to the pathetic, where two little girls tormentedly admitted that under the excitement of the previous night's revival they had walked home with their boy friends and...
In other aspects of the lecture, too, Dr. Drury showed a tendency to lose contact with educational reality. He lauded the spending of money on elaborate school buildings, for example, without mention of the disproportion between these expenditures and the salaries of teachers. Similarly, political control of the public schools...
The second development is the complete replacement of the "Insurance" and old "Class Fund" methods of accumulating the anniversary donation. The former necessitated the payment of specified premiums through all manner of times, good or bad. The latter was apt to degenerate, all too often, into a last minute scramble...
Smart is King George's youngest son Prince George. He thought up in his schooldays a way to outwit Queen Mary. She gave him only four shillings a week pocket money, exacted his word of honor not to borrow. Honorable, he priced his own autograph at two bob (shillings...