Word: note
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...heard on these matters when he published a factual, informative, detached book, American Labor, that summed up labor's story. There is nothing detached about Labor's Civil War. Like some Mencken of the proletariat, heaving adjectives at labor's sacred cows, Mr. Harris sustains a note of exasperation, ridicule, hell-and-damnation for 298 pages to show how American unions are moving toward "a double suicide of majestic stupidity...
This was all very well, but Moscow suddenly discovered that the little Rumanian Army was trying to pick a fight with the big Red Army along the Bessarabian frontier. Premier Molotov sent an outraged note to Bucharest. The Rumanian Army was withdrawn from the Prut River to the Siret. This gesture only brought forth a stiffer note from Comrade Molotov. It looked very much as if Russia were about to protect herself by moving farther into...
Charlie Chaplin had no musical training, cannot read a note. But he plays the piano well for an amateur, the violin and concertina very well. Chaplin composes by humming, whistling or playing his themes on a piano while someone takes his tunes down. For The Great Dictator, his first picture in which he avowedly needed help, Composer Chaplin thought up most of the tunes, in part or in whole, let Composer Willson do the rest. One sequence, a variation on an old beer-garden waltz, begins when Actor Chaplin is hit on the head by a frying pan, which...
Personally I am not enthusiastic about an education which is administered by a force pump. I do not believe that, by and large, students of science, let us say, obtain much of permanent value when they are compelled (note, I say "compelled") to take a course in "general literature" or "universal history" or a "survey of western art since 1200"; and I am sure that those of a literary or artistic bent are not educated by being forced to take freshman chemistry or physics...
...more optimistic note is struck at the ends, where Harvard has capable performers three deep. Loren MacKinney gets top billing at present, but three promising Sophomore recruits are sure to see much service. Forte, Morgan, and Barnes were all standouts on an above average Freshman team, and hard-luck veteran Joe Koufman is ready to step in if these second-year men prove to be still a year away from Varsity competition...