Word: bores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...though Robeson was still a superb figure of a man with a deep and thrilling voice, John Henry proved an elaborate bore. A rambling, rag-picaresque tale of a black giant toting 800-lb. bales of cotton, laying rails with his bare hands, groaning with woman trouble and at last crashing down while trying to perform a Black River Labor of Hercules, the play never achieved either dramatic excitement or heroic force...
...swan-song speech in Salzburg, Herr Funk bore this inference out: "The National Socialist Government declines to cover war costs by means of the printing press." He urged rather popular savings, not of Sachwerte (real wealth) but of marks and pfennigs. "Some people are hoarding even bathtubs, although they can neither eat them, wear them around their necks, nor pay taxes with them." Why Herr Funk put taxes in a class with food and adornment, as something every good German should enjoy, was made clear by his hints that the Government might soon have to levy some new taxes. Best...
...linings are so scored by hot, high-pressure gases in the split-second of explosion that they become inaccurate. Such guns must be cooled between shots or their barrels, superheated, will sag at the muzzle. Between shots, too, their gunners must calculate (from a pressure gauge communicating with the bore) how much to add to the charge to allow for progressive scoring and keep up the range...
...Reason, according to Critic Howard Rushmore: he refused to follow the party line in his review of Gone With the Wind. Told to write a blistering attack on Margaret Mitchell's $3,850,000 picture, Critic Rushmore (whose grandfather was a Confederate soldier) merely said it was a bore...