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...Garbo's. The character players who make up the local color are taken from Miss Vollmer's radio sketch of the Tennessee mountains, "Moonshine and Honeysuckle," and are used only as folls for Miss Hepburn. Ralph Bellamy and Robert Young, young engineers who invade the backwoods to build a dam, offer complications which are not very important, except as they create dramatic situations for Katharine. As for Miss Hepburn's complete domination of the picture, that is an open question. The cinema magnates have probably found that the public wants unadulterated . . . Hepburn. Broadway thought differently when it gave Jed Harris...
...natural comparative, Henry Ford, whose famed saying (often misquoted) was: "I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world. History is more or less bunk. . . . The only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today...
Swift and terrible as a sword-thrust is angina pectoris. Disease or degeneration may narrow the blood vessels which supply the heart, or a tiny clot dam one of them. Then, usually with exertion or emotion, excruciating pain stabs the heart, radiates through the chest, shoots down the left arm. With the pain comes a feeling of suffocation, an anguished sense of impending death. Sometimes Death comes with the first attack; sometimes, as it did to Banker Otto H. Kahn last week (see p. 63), after many...
...including Big Wedge Mining which in January, 1932, uncovered a rich new field. When the U. S. started buying gold last year. 58 new mining brokers registered at "Manila in a single month and 30 new companies were incorporated. The Director of Commerce and Industry hastened to dam up a flood of worthless wildcat securities by revamping the blue sky laws...
...scholars is that the capital of Saba (Sheba) was Mareb, about 750 mi. from last week's putative discovery. Once a flourishing and autonomous trade centre, during the early Christian era Mareb fell to successive conquerors and its decay was hastened by the collapse of a great irrigation dam. Modern explorers have found the ruins and numerous inscriptions to identify them, but no mention of any queen. Some authorities suggest that a queen may have lived in the north of Arabia and acquired the wealth of Mareb by force or subterfuge...