Word: stoops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Linked by no ties of blood or tradition, Yale plays St. John's for the mere sake of having an opponent scheduled and of preserving her vitality for a contest two weeks away. Where is the good old "devil-may-care" spirit of a university. Which does not stoop to petty things, which plays football for the fun of playing the game, and not for the hope that she may prove herself a superior institution by defeating her adversary in athletics? --Yale Daily News
...setting is a high-class tenement house. The story concerns all the people who live in it, but chiefly the Maurrants who give the other tenants cause for talk-derisive, frightened, sympathetic- on the dingy front stoop. Mr. Maurrant is a stage technician; his wife (Estelle Taylor) is having an affair with a bill collector. One day Maurrant comes home before he is expected, sees the shades pulled down in the window of his flat. He goes upstairs and shoots his wife and her lover. Police catch him in a cellar down the street. The Maurrants' daughter (Sylvia Sidney...
...might be similar stories, as there were surely similar incidents. The camera's disadvantage lies in the fact that its lens is less efficient than the human eye: to show a head poked out of a second-story window, the camera must omit the group on the front stoop. When far enough away to show the whole house, it is too far away to show the people clearly. Like the play, the cinema enjoys the advantages of brilliant acting, especially that of Beulah Bondi as an Irish hag whose loose tongue, constantly wagging and whining, voices the obscene...
...Stoop-shouldered, near-sighted Julius Karolyi was born in Nyir-Bator 60 years ago. He is a second cousin of stuttering Count Michael Karolyi whose ineffectual Republic was overthrown by the mon strous Bela Kun in 1919, who made U. S. headlines when the State Department denied him a visa to enter the country six years ago as a dangerous radical. Julius Karolyi is a very great noble. Two years ago he was elected one of the two Custodians of the Crown of St. Stephen, an honorary position. In December 1930 he turned in his little gold...
...their own position, did nothing either, but took pains to be exceedingly polite. Realizing that France and Germany must come to direct terms sooner or later, the French and German delegations stayed at the same hotel, the Ritz. Junior attachés breakfasted together publicly. Swart Premier Laval and stoop-shouldered Brer Briand were always willing to see reporters. On the crucial morning of the conference Brer Briand posed amiably for reporters even though he had just gashed his cheek open while shaving. Nerves of the U. S. delegates were frazzled. For two days wires sputtered with details...