Word: bents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even pausing to remove coat or hat, Professor Elliot bent his back to the task, and assisted by the driver, another passer-by, and Jim Curwen, swimmer extraordinaire, saw to it that the entangled fenders were released...
...sulfanilamide & diethylene glycol (TIME, Dec. 20, et ante), the Journal of the American Medical Association published a survey of sulfanilamide's uses and dangers. But so many new discoveries have occurred that the New England Journal of Medicine had Dr. Maurice A. Schnitker of Harvard's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital make a new survey, which it published last fortnight. Its prime points...
...nothing in three acts it could not do better in one. Its sharpish characterizations never make up for its dragging plot. Actress Barrymore, looking like a cross between her Brother Lionel and the wolf dressed up as Red Riding Hood's grandmother, carries the whole play on her bent, centenarian back. Her expert performance gains in effect from the audience's kindly feeling that anything a 101-year-old woman says is remarkably witty...
Promptly Publisher Block demanded a retraction. He got only a few meagre words of regret. Doggedly bent on satisfaction, Mr. Block instituted a $900,000 libel suit against the Nation and Mr. Allen. Up to this week no paper had published news of the action, for both plaintiff and defendants neatly avoided publicity by keeping the complaint out of court. If Mr. Block hoped that quietly starting suit against the Nation-which would be flattered if anyone thought it had $900,000- would smoke out a retraction, he guessed wrong. Last week the Nation's attorneys, most famed...
...this, his only full-fledged opera, Purcell bases his texture on the Venetian School, and more especially on Lully. He exhibits a strong bent to the use of a basso ostenato, basing his melodic line on the structure of his bass part...