Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...which Mrs. Hughes has mapped out her book will not please all her readers. Her idea is to approach England as a background for American history and common Anglo-American traditions. Possibly this is a good scheme, but "America's England" is too obvious in intent. This reviewer would have preferred to have Mrs. Hughes write about England simply because it is England. Accordingly, such chapters as "Georgia and Oglethorpe" are annoying. Nevertheless, on the whole, "America's England" is uncommonly good reading because Mrs. Hughes knows the high roads and the by roads of her native land...
...Benson Murder Case (Paramount). This was the first mystery story S. S. Van Dine ever wrote. It is also the least interesting, an approach-none too assured-toward the method he developed in his later books. Paramount hack writers have made it better on the whole with the changes they introduce. Benson, who gets murdered, is a stockbroker. He has ruined several of his customers by selling them out in a market slump and each of the ruined traders has some other, private, reason for killing him. One evening they all meet at Benson's place in the country...
...land, so unique in the abundance and tameness of its wild life, that one can approach to within a few feet of wandering monkey bands, catch armadillos with one's bare hands, and startle gorgeous blue and flame macaws, the giants of the parrot family from nearby branches, is not a mythical Paradise, but Guanacaste, isolated, northwestern province of Costa Rica, in Central America...
...presented to President Herbert Hoover, engineer, by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Said President Hoover addressing his professional colleagues: "In solving problems of government we have need for a large leavening of the engineering knowledge and engineering attitude of mind. . . . They are unsolvable without the fundamental engineers' approach to truth...
Fritz Leiber and the Chicago Civic Shakespeare Society. There are two schools of thought about Shakespearean productions. One holds that unless their splendors approach perfection, it is better to stay home and read the plays. The other insists that the great Shakespearean characters were meant to be seen and heard, that anyone who resists their appearance in the flesh, even though that flesh be pocked with imperfections, can be no true fancier of the drama...