Word: breedings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...unsuccessful small time trooper and of enunciating, as convincingly as possible, the trite old them that no real actor can ever leave theatre. Considering the difficulties, portrayal of your true "down and outer is well done. He has achieved this beaten, despairing air which is typical of the breed. In addition, he gives impression of quiet power and earnestness which enable him to across a hard luck story in a thoroughly moving fashion: to express the wronght sentimentality which accompanys the hackneyed thesis of "the lure of the theatre" with surprising conviction. His humor is natural, forced, at times naive...
...plan is Wilton Lloyd-Smith, 37, keen, aggressive law partner in the firm of Cotton, Franklin, Wright & Gordon. Wartime field-artilleryman, Director Lloyd-Smith now devotes a large part of his surplus energy to big-game hunting. His Labrador retriever, "Ken-jockety Jim," won the Open and Best of Breed ribbons at last month's Westminster Kennel Club show. His wife, Marjorie, is the daughter of Arthur Henry Fleming, whose generous contributions helped to bring California Institute of Technology into being. In announcing his plan, Director Lloyd-Smith made public the sad fact that New York City...
...Chinese shoreline. The other characters are a group of the ill-assorted personages customarily assembled for "one location" stories-a sour-tongued missionary, an old lady with a lapdog, a U. S. gambler, a German opium dealer who seems to suffer from chilblains, an oriental trollop, a half-breed Chinese named Henry Chang, a British Army surgeon with an Addisonian turn of speech. In the up-to-date habit of Transatlantic, Union Depot and Grand Hotel, they are all inhabiting a train of luxurious Pullmans bound from Peiping to Shanghai. When the train stops at a way station, Henry Chang...
Then, like a bolt from the blue, came the news of Hannes Schnieder and his great Ski School at Arlberg. Here was somebody who had dared to throw tradition to the winds. He was developing a new technique; a sort of mongrel breed, half Swiss, half Norwegian. Schnieder declared, "I don't care how I get down a hill, so long as I reach the bottom standing up!" With the spread of this Arlberg method New England has become Ski-conscious. The interest and necessary nerve have been with us now for two winters, but, till just recently, there...
...martial law, oldtime white residents of Honolulu well knew out of what black and bitter soil this latest crime had grown, but for political or commercial reasons they kept their mouths shut. The childlike, romantic Hawaiian of pure blood, they privately explained, has almost disappeared in a polyglot breed of Filipinos, Japanese, Chinese and Portuguese. Most U. S. whites on the islands look down socially upon this hybrid population. While socially inferior, the brown-skinned "Hawaiian" is a full-fledged U. S. citizen with political rights and power equal to those of the ruling white caste. Oldtime white residents claim...