Word: respective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...combination of three names, three figures who have given the contemporary stage in America a great deal of its high quality and some of its greatness,--Cornell, McClintic, and Miclziner, star, director, and stage designer. They put on a production so polished, so beautifully done in every respect that Mr. Behrman's temporary foibles fade into the background...
...settlement proposed by E. P. Holton has my hearty approval. I have spent several months in Britain, and think she would respect us more if she paid...
...world could still believe in the word of those who today declare themselves satisfied or peaceful, now that they are covered with blood? . . . When Mr. Hitler tells us today after destroying Poland that he asks for nothing more, when he declares he wants nothing from France and will respect her frontiers, every Frenchman knows he will not hesitate if he can destroy France as he destroyed Austria, as he destroyed Czecho-Slovakia, as he seeks to destroy Poland...
...happy coincidence, the New York World's Fair put on a Pan American Day, at which, by chance, Cordell Hull was scheduled to speak. In the Fair's Court of Peace, Secretary of State Hull gave a quiet, drawling speech in favor of justice, fair dealing, mutual respect, cooperation, solidarity. A better showman was New York's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, colorful Latin and good American, who called Pan America "a democracy of democracies," said it had no "big brother" and would accept "no ersatz for God Almighty...
With "Four Feathers," Hollywood offers to what has now become a somewhat suspecting public another example of victorious British imperialism. Mr. Mason's story of a coward seeking to regain his self-respect while England is avenging the murder of General Gordon no longer proves to be very exciting, or even interesting, fare. Whether it is the slow-paced direction or the European war that detracts from the glory of the Sudan campaign and Omdurman is hard to tell. It is probably a combination of both, with the former chiefly at fault. Although the photography is excellent, too great...