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...beginning of this picture, Nick Charles (William Powell) says to one of his favorite bartenders: "A dry martini should be shaken to waltz time." This conceit is the most disputable bit of deductive reasoning which Nick Charles executes in the course of The Thin Man. A retired detective, in Manhattan for a holiday with his charming wife (Myrna Loy), he finds himself drawn by circumstance into trying to solve the sudden disappearance of an eccentric inventor, whose mistress has been found murdered. When the inventor's watch-chain is discovered in the dead woman's hand, when...
...world. A 50-acre park opened in 1931. it is arranged for the comfort of animals, not humans. Visitors must hike along fenced or ditched paths while animals roam at will through acres of field and forest. The royal party had tea on a clipped, sloping bit of" turf with lions lolling just below them in a huge, sandy-bottomed chalk pit. "Their Majesties expressed themselves," reported the Illustrated London News, "as specially pleased with the tameness of the animals." Last week a visitor's hat blew over the low double fence around the lion pit. Obligingly after...
About a year ago he deviated a bit from his usual "hot" numbers and varied his program with such "smooth" selections as his popular "Moon Glow." This was done to add rather more respectability and finesse to his program, as well as cater to audiences other than those composed of adolescents...
Though he led a more public life after the War, as befitted Germany's foremost novelist, did his bit for reconstruction by lecturing in Paris, served as president of the Bavarian section of the German Authors Society and signed a cable pleading for executive clemency in the Scottsboro case, he joined no party, stayed away from social and political functions. When the Nazi broom began to sweep Germany clean of non-"Aryans," "Aryan" Thomas Mann picked up his household goods and left. Resigned to permanent exile, he says: "As a German. I can understand what has happened...
This afternoon, on the one bit of "Old Yale," Sophomores and Freshmen will gather together for the solemn occasion of the handing on of the Yale Fence. In these days of tradition-killing transition it behooves Sophomores and Freshmen not only to enjoy the ceremony, but to look beyond it to the more weighty significance of the Fence Orations...