Word: astounding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Radio) may well astound cinemaddicts who saw the comedy by the same name on the Manhattan stage a year ago. To playgoers, the particular merits of Arthur Kober's study of a group of unmoneyed young New Yorkers vacationing in the Berkshires were that all of the visitors at Kamp Kare-Free were unmistakably denizens of The Bronx and that the author had caught, with sympathy but cruel precision, all the semi-miraculous gradations of Bronx Jewish dialect. As presented on the screen, nothing but the name of the camp, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.'s aquiline profile...
Altogether, Henry Armstrong is a fairly rare individual. His strength and his stamina astound fight fans. Although his legs are spindly, his shoulders and arms are as brawny as a stevedore's. At the end of 15 rounds of whirlwind boxing last week, he was breathing no harder than the average person who climbs a flight of subway stairs. His amazing stamina doctors attribute to slow heart action. His powerful arms and shoulders Henry Armstrong attributes to his first job: swinging a sledge hammer in a railroad section gang...
...Many of the scenes in the moving pictures of the Panay sinking," he cackled, "were faked in American waters." Then, with reporters too amazed to ask him which of the grimly bloody scenes he referred to, he went on to astound them even more...
...Pussy Pussy, that has hit possibilities. Zorina and the Metropolitan Opera ballet appear in two elaborate dances, one a banal number, the other (high point of the picture) a superlatively beautiful water nymph dance in which Zorina, in skintight gold tunic, rises from the bottom of a fountain to astound a gentleman in dinner clothes. The Goldwyn girls, trade-mark of every Sam Goldwyn musical, appear only in the jazz v. classics ballet, are sorely missed thereafter...
Soviet Supreme Court in handing down a verdict so comparatively mild as to take Moscow's veteran corps of correspondents completely by surprise and astound all Russia (see below...