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...periods that while Clare Boothe's hell-cats are desperately trying to get themselves out of marriage, Edith Wharton's bustled and be-snooded felines spend their time clawing their way in. The old maid, Bette Davis, never quite makes the grade, and the ensuing complications make grim and glorious fare...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/31/1939 | See Source »

Last week at Andover, Phillips Academy's shrewd Headmaster Claude M. Fuess (rhymes with "geese") adopted a collegiate custom by staging his school's first Alumni Day. To Andover's 162-year-old campus, glorious in sunshine and brilliant autumn foliage, came 175 old Andover boys. Oldest were a pair of survivors from the class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Andover | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Thus, writes Anonymous, the statement that the moon in Paris "sheds its glorious light here as in the States" is supposed to mean "An advance is planned for the morrow." Other Anonymous decodings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Double Talk | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...destined for some carefully made-up face. It is a shame that the idea has been abandoned, for many modern pictures might be livened up immeasurably with the sudden appearance of a custard pic in flight. The second scene involves the Keystone cops and a 1913 Ford. The glorious, lusty pantomime of the whole scene makes one wonder whether real movie comedy didn't die with the advent of the talkies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: * The Moviegoer * | 10/20/1939 | See Source »

...concern of the German Club of Harvard University is with cultural and spiritual traits that abide in the German people in their great musical, literary, scientific, and philosophic successes. The Club is not blind to the less glorious periods of German history, for its purpose is to understand the entire German and the whole Germany...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GERMAN CLUB ISSUES STATEMENT OF POLICY | 10/17/1939 | See Source »

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