Word: boringly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unfortunately for Miss Rainer's aspirations and the entertainment value of this picture, a great deal of cinema film has run through projection machines since old New Orleans was first presented as the epitome of U. S. historical glamor. Nowadays it does not seem much better than a bore, and all the flounced dresses, veranda columns and old plantation dialogue in Hollywood-on which The Toy Wife appears to be trying to corner the market-cannot completely change it. Produced with MGM's customarily scrupulous attention to visual detail, the picture relates with considerable pictorial beauty the lachrymose...
...presidency of Antioch College, Dr. Morgan was obliged to rest his mind with a long vacation in Europe. The private view of many of his critics is that he needs to rest his mind again. The form, substance and manner of the case which he last week presented bore out no such view. He was calm, cogent, precise. He began by stating that he accused his colleagues of no dishonesty except intellectual dishonesty. Said...
...people thronged the Danube banks when down the river, six miles to St. Margaret Island and back, steamed a procession of ten vessels from which sounded trumpet and organ music. In the steamers were cardinals, archbishops, bishops, priests, monks, nuns and laymen of the Roman Catholic Church. One boat bore, in a golden monstrance in an illuminated, glass-enclosed chapel, the Sacred Host. When Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, Papal Secretary of State and Papal Legate to the 34th International Eucharistic Congress, held aloft the monstrance and pronounced the benediction, all was quiet along the Danube. A moment later boat whistles shrilled...
Giving herself credit for no very high motives, the author admits that after she was seduced she was wildly promiscuous until she bore an illegitimate son, became a streetwalker after he died. Most interesting but cloudiest part of To beg I am ashamed tells of her brief marriage, which took her to Malaya, where her husband worked for a rubber company. Since he knew of her past, she thought the marriage was hopeless from the start, nevertheless made a desperate effort to become respectable, was frustrated by her former clients, her mother's malicious disclosures, her husband...
...over the plate to such a group of muscle merchants as Frisco Caspar, Flung Huey, and Greg Grupp. Bevies of base hits bounded through, around, and over such 'poon boys as Utrid, Tink, Poop, Twit, and Cuddlepoop. Since Feller missed his traveling connections, the entire CRIMSON executive board bore mound burdens...