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Word: needless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Needless to say, it is a physical impossibility to treat such a question creditably in the short time allotted. The test was so phrased as to allow the sufficiently prepared man no adequate opportunity to present his knowledge in a manner equal to the preparation and time expended. The type of examination, the evident mismanagement as to the assigned reading, and the requirement of a 5000-word thesis the week following the examination only add to the general dissatisfaction over having a December Hour examination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HISTORY 2 | 12/11/1929 | See Source »

...reappearance. It is by all odds one of the most successful of the Westerns with Gary Cooper capturing the spirit of Owen Wister's hero to perfection. Mary Brian is attractive if a trifle too sophisticated for a Vermont schoolteacher out to educate the younger generation in Wyoming. Needless to say Gary gets both his man and his girl and manages to make the whole story convincing...

Author: By R. L. W., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 12/3/1929 | See Source »

...must walk from one window to another along a four-inch ledge on the outside of the building which, at that point, is 200 feet above ground. If he falls, his death will be announced as suicide; if he accomplishes the feat the whole matter will promptly be forgotten. Needless to say, Legrange treads the ledge safely, guilty only of shielding a woman's guilt. The harrowing quality of the ledge scene fails to mitigate Playwright Paul Osborn's long, tedious stretches. This idle melodrama is the second presentation of the New York Theatre Assembly which, sponsored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...Vincent Youmans, composer of such infectious songs as "Tea for Two," "Sometimes I'm Happy'' and "Hallelujah," presents his country with several remarkable airs in this bromidic and tedious musicomedy about a Southern lass (Mayo Methot) whose ancestral mansion is sold for a gambling house. Needless to say, a comely Northerner (Alan Prior) eases her heart. Two of Composer Youman's best tunes, the lingering "Without A Song," the jubilant "Great Day," are magnificently reverberated by an Afric choir of 40 voices led by Mr. Lois Deppe. Other Youmans' melodies which will soon reach ballroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...times, especially in his earlier years, his directness of speech caused needless irritation and may well have cost him friends. A rich gentleman whose estate bordered the property of the College complained to him of a high pile of wood or lumber close to the line that divided the estates. 'I told him,' said the President, many years later, 'that if he objected to the College's woodpile, the College' would gladly buy his land. That,' the President added, 'was a bad break...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Briggs, Disciple of Eliot, Writes on "Greatest Man He Ever Knew" in Article Rich With Anecdotes | 10/26/1929 | See Source »

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