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...consequence of this find paleontologists will be able to make their first detailed comparison of Triassic forms in this hemisphere with those in South Africa, where many deposits from this period abound. After preliminary study the experts have found similarities between the two, confirming other evidence of early transcontinental migrations...
...famous English stage actress, give excellent support in the roles of Czar and the dying Empress from whose once capable hands Catherine II has to take the reins of government. The English eye for details is less keen than that of Hollywood and the pomp and pageantry which abound lack the conviction which recent domestic historical films have attained. In spite of these defects the film is well worth seeing if one has not viewed it before...
Although Chestertonian paradoxes are less frequent in his Autobiography than in the famed Father Brown stories, or The Man Who Was Thursday, they abound in his portraits of his contemporaries: Shaw, Wells, Belloc, Cunninghame Graham, Max Beerbohm, Sir James Barrie. Alternately scolding and admiring, he says that Shaw is no Irish rebel, that he is too "pro-British," a charge he seems to feel should cut the Irish dramatist to the quick. Chesterton and Shaw fought for 20 years. They debated on sex, socialism, Christianity, war, Ireland, Shakespeare, until they came to be stock figures in British intellectual life, being...
...verses in More Poems are typical of Housman, give no evidence of lack of finish or failing power. They abound in tight, dry expressions of his skepticism...
...trial which follows he is accused of everything from abnormal mental depression to "pixylation" (state of being followed by pixies), but Jean Arthur breaks up the proceedings at the last moment with love and kisses and saves him from the confines of the sanatorium. Altogether the plot and dialogue abound in amusement, and the supporting, cast puts it over to perfection...