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Word: never (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pace of a first-rate detective story. Maureen O'Hara, Laughton's much-heralded colleen, is not, however, the sensation that one might expect. While she is admirable as a wide-eyed adventuress, it is hard to imagine her as a big-time all-around actress,--but then, you never can tell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/27/1939 | See Source »

Contrast this situation with the one hundred per cent dearth in the East. New England college students never get any closer to drum majorettes than leering at their pictures in "Click." Here is a chance once and for all for Harvard to establish her intellectual supremacy. She can start a movement among the Ivy Colleges which will burn up the league. It might be objected that all-male educational institutions are in a slightly different position from the coed plants of the West, but what about the American Legion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RAISE THE BATON AVERAGE | 10/26/1939 | See Source »

Most of Mr. Conant's listeners are probably still of the opinion that a society without caste never was and never will be. Even his own Utopia, where education catapults the men with intellect or talent into positions of power, is possessed of a caste system--with caste resting upon intellect and talent. Even if the ruling class turns over to a certain extent, it is still a ruling class; and there is no real or universal freedom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BRAVE NEW WORLD | 10/25/1939 | See Source »

...Goin'" at the Shubert Monday night. Between yawns, the audience wondered when the highly touted Miss Mary Martin would appear. At last, after two interminable scenes, Miss Martin finally entered, all-shining in a golden gown. She then proceeded to sing a song nobody could understand, and the audience never recovered from the shock...

Author: By V. F. Jr., | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 10/25/1939 | See Source »

...holiness of the last one. But still, the parallel between now and the days of 1914-1917 is close. Then too, leaders of church and university such as President Eliot of Harvard and Bishop Manning, boldly backed Britain and France. America thought after the war that this would never happen again, but the familiar utterances have returned within the last month to haunt and harass the spirit of a nation determined to stay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HOUSE IS HAUNTED | 10/24/1939 | See Source »

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