Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...knew Herbert Hoover passingly or better, how might he take advantage of Mr. Hoover's inauguration to acquire publicity for himself? One way might be to take two simple steps, as follows...
Captain Lash (Fox). Victor McLaglen takes the same kind of parts as George Bancroft but is a little bigger, better natured and less impressive. When a crazy fireman knocks open a steam valve in the stokehole where he works, McLaglen gets hurt rescuing Claire Windsor who has come down there with a party of passengers being shown around the ship. Does that girl make goo-goo eyes? Yes, she does make goo-goo eyes. Is she smuggling diamonds? Yes, she's smuggling diamonds. Three or four years ago a film photographed, acted, plotted as effectively as this would have...
Sommelier: "Ah, M'sieu, the cognac Napoleon 1820 is much better than the cognac of any of the Emperor's happier years!" (Curtain...
Blanche Yurka is tall, almost burly. As the placid wife of improvidential Hjalmar Ekdal in The Wild Duck she filled an ample role to which her body, her accomplishments and her God better suit her than the tense thing to which she has tried to suit herself in Hedda Gabler. She gives a certain effect of languor, but it is the languor, not of a bitter neurotic, but of a temporarily awakened marble slowly reverting to stone...
...drop from an airplane at the same moment they will strike the earth, if there is no air resistance, at exactly the same moment. Such is an effect of gravity. Isaac Newton described the effect well with his laws of gravity. Albert Einstein did better with his general theory of relativity. He found a metric (a measure) with which he could subdivide practically everything that happened in his fourth dimensional world. It was a theoretical measuring unit invented by Georg F. B. Riemann (1826-66), mathematician...