Word: absently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drive of a .45 slug, but the comic interludes are mostly misfires. Paulette Goddard is agreeably bummy as an affluent madam, and Porter Hall, as one of the witnesses (an undertaker on a spree), firmly supports many a shaky scene with his main comic device: an almost completely absent chin. Edward G. Robinson is as monotonous and entertaining as ever. An actor who has developed well-nigh infinite modulations of the sneer, Robinson, after 30 years of practice, has at last produced his masterpiece. In Vice Squad, he displays a sneer so spectacular that he can almost be said...
...with a gold pen set with diamonds and emeralds she signed the shortest law in Brazil's history. It read: "As of this date, slavery in Brazil is declared extinct." It was a great triumph for the plump, fair-haired young princess, then acting as regent for her absent father, Emperor Dom Pedro II. In ten days, after she had reformed the cabinet, she pushed the emancipation bill through the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. Commoners and courtiers joined in celebration, but the princess' ousted prime minister sardonically predicted: "She has freed a people...
Antonio Frasconi, 34, seems a paradoxical fellow. He has happy brown eyes and a sad black mustache, an air of contentment and a sighing voice, a habit of absent-minded wandering and a craftsman's power of concentration. Says he: "An artist must be aware of the comic strip as well as of the serious side of life." Frasconi divides his time between Southern California (where "everything is wide open") and Manhattan ("it's all concentrated like a sardine can"). He sketches constantly in street and field "There is so much going on," he sighs, "so much material...
...Janeiro's Dr. Arthur Campos da Paz, the trouble is that cervical secretions are hostile to spermatozoa. This can be established by a simple smear test. If the secretion is normally receptive, it dries in a marked, fernlike pattern; if it is hostile, the pattern is different or absent. And in such cases, doses of a female hormone may fix things...
...much more they could do. Said the New York Times: "Is [the Czech] government willing to permit truthful reporting from Prague and to grant personal security to foreign newspapermen honestly engaged in such reporting? That is the real test which, even as we welcome Mr. Oatis, cannot be absent from our minds...