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...addition, Yale was guilty of employing duck-pins, while the Cantabs limited themselves to the taller, slimmer, less easily stricken candle-pins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Cops Gypped in Bowling Match With Crimson Flatfeet | 3/12/1938 | See Source »

Jobs are also available in the 1938 Work Camps conducted by the American Friends Association in the Mississippi cotton belt, in the poverty stricken coal areas of Pennsylvania, or in the Tennessee Valley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OPPORTUNITY TO WORK IN NEW YORK SLUMS AND COUNTRY GIVEN BY P.B.H. | 3/10/1938 | See Source »

...role as the femme fatale. She is hown consorting with sinister Orientals, attempting to shoot Mr. Sanders down in cold blood, driving about Shanghai in a Buick cabriolet, which does credit to Director Eugene Forde and in an excellent sequence she is shown fighting her way through a terror-stricken mob during an air-raid. Perhaps the most enjoyable scene, however, is that in which she renders a blues song in a languid, husky monotone, and then proceeds to "bury the torch" in the approved Kay Thompson manner. The song is mediocre, but Miss Del Rio makes the very most...

Author: By C. L. B., | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 2/8/1938 | See Source »

...should be served, but no vegetables except mashed potatoes; 5) pretty young women should be present. Due to arrive in Manhattan by New Year's Day, for another tour, big, broad-shouldered, bearded Count Keyserling unexpectedly canceled his trip. To disappointed hostesses he wrote mysteriously that he was stricken, that the greatest tragedy of his life had taken place. But observers who noted that he seemed as broad-shouldered as ever added an-other reason: Before Hitler took power, Count Keyserling had announced that the Nazis were unfit to rule, has been in official disfavor ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Keyserling | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...main criticisms was that "The contralized agrarian program takes money from the middle and poor classes in the United States in proportion as they are poverty stricken. The relief authorities give it back to the very poor. The net sufferers are the middle classes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: C. C. ZIMMERMAN ASSAILS PRESENT BUREAUCRACY | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

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