Word: detachment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Born a Brazilian but trained in the best economic schools abroad, he approaches with a certain detachment . . ." Dr. Normano's training was hardly done in the best schools at all. His knowledge of finance lead him to detach himself quickly from Berlin Police nets with the $700,000 he procured mysteriously by his great talents. But he is back in Germany now, as Isaak Lewin, Berlin-born and bred. This is all very cruel to dig up again, but Normano was a great economist, and we are still sorely puzzled. And we pity Professor Haring...
Notwithstanding the depreciatory comment on the plot, as I have said already, "Broadway Through A Keyhole" has its better points. If you can detach yourself from the story, You will enjoy this film. Frances Williams sings one song and makes you wish that she were given more opportunities to display her talent. Eddie Foy, Jr., and Constance Cummings do a number to a John Reld, Jr. background entitled "when you were the girl on the skooter and I was the boy on the bike." It is one of the best that I have seen in the musical movies. Then there...
Credit for the extensive excavations of Persepolis goes to Director James Henry Breasted of Chicago's Oriental Institute. He found the money to finance learned Professor Herzfeld and detach him from the University of Berlin. Professor Herzfeld, 53, has dug into ancient Persia for 30 years. The Shah is a personal friend, recently visited him at Persepolis...
...their food as she came down stairs to sell her famous miniature nickel-plated hatchets. Students pressed around her, offering her cigars and cigarettes, and feigning great surprise when she struck their smokes wrathfully to the ground. One student made a grab at her bonnet, but was unable to detach...
Before evening a telephone message was sent to Group Commander Stampfer (French) at Mont Notre Dame to detach a battery of 305 mm. or twelve-inch rifles on Batignolles railway carriages and send them north to Vailley where they were to set up and fire on the map coordinates 47-25 near Crepy...