Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raffish vagabond who considers it beneath his dignity to take a job as janitor and prefers to mistreat his mistress while she supports him, Boyer supplies precisely that mixture of cruelty and innocence which is required to make Liliom a sympathetic character. Director Lang's treatment of the story brings out the quality of rueful fantasy which Author Molnar put into the play and which was so notably absent from the U. S. screen version in which Charles Farrell appeared (TIME, Oct. 20, 1930). Characteristically imaginative is Lang's use of puppets-usually a detriment to any cinema...
...midst of a desultory conference at his Wardha headquarters, Mahatma Gandhi peered at his dollar watch, stood up, hurried out into a blazing sun. Waiting beneath a tree in his orchard were Mr. & Mrs. James Henry Roberts Cromwell (Tobacco Heiress Doris Duke). Gandhi shook hands, led them into a bare cell where they all sat on the floor. Voluble Mr. Cromwell began to expound his economic theories, argue for a "reformed capitalism." Gandhi thought that in India that would make a bad situation worse. Mrs. Cromwell turned the conversation to the Mahatma's campaign against Untouchability, which she said...
Incensed by Baron Von Tippelskirsch's placing of a wreath beneath the tablet of the four German students of Harvard who were killed in the service of their country, the N.S.L. last night issued the following mandatory protest...
Honduras. While tatterdemalion Christians sought refuge in the catacombs beneath Pagan Rome, the Mayas of Central America were spreading from city to city a glittering civilization. One such metropolis was Copan. Archeologists were at work there a half century ago, unearthing elaborately carved steles and sacrificial altars. Last year earthquakes rocked the region, sent some of the ruins tumbling into the Copan River. At the invitation of the Honduras Government, a commission from the Carnegie Institution of Washington arrived last month to undertake restoration and protection. Behind a collapsed wall Head Commissioner Gustav Stromsvik was startled to find stone staircases...
...happy as Mr. & Mrs. James J. Walker and others who find their homelands in 1935 simply too tiresome. Last week when correspondents rushed to Knowle House, rented from Sir Eric Bonham, they were greeted by King Prajadhipok's dapper young secretary, wearing grey flannel trousers and a pullover beneath his coat...