Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beeches," his Northampton home. Calvin Coolidge had gotten up that morning as usual at 7 a. m. At the breakfast table he grumbled over the lack of news in the papers. At 8 130 he was at his office (Coolidge & Hemenway) on Main Street, reading his mail, attending to minor personal business. What he thought was another attack of indigestion-he had been doctoring himself for it with soda for three weeks (see n. 30)-made him feel uncomfortable. So about 10 o'clock he said to Harry Ross, his Secretary: "Well, I guess...
...Maedchen in Uniform is to be seen in a translated version of its second phase, not nearly so satisfactory as its third. Without cinematic evidence of the many little rigors in the Prussian school for officers' daughters to which Manuela is sent, Manuela's adolescent tortures lack credibility. The best the play can do is to show a score of submissive young girls marching under the iron eye of limping Headmistress von Nordeck; to state that their food and heat are to be curtailed (although the young ladies on the stage seem plump and warm enough); to picture...
...rules than passing notes. Possibly because most of them did not understand German, U. S. filmgoers were struck by the shy fragility of this relationship. The sense of grey imprisonment, so successfully captured on the screen, is almost entirely lost on the stage. As if to atone for lack of convincing atmosphere, those responsible for Girls in Uniform have made the entente between Manuela and the teacher unwholesomely explicit-a doubtful benefit. And to cap that, Manuela of the play actually manages to destroy herself instead of making an abortive stab at it. Point of the cinema was that...
...Herald, translated to German for Vorwaerts. When Publisher Berger took his seat in Congress in 1911 he persuaded Heinrich Bartel, then editor of the Chicago Arbeiter Zeitung, to go to Milwaukee and take charge of Vorwaerts. Editor Bartel served until the end. Small, grey, he mourned last week the lack of sentimentality in post-War Germans. Moped...
...Crimson regrets that due to lack of space it will not be able to print all the comments from each department...