Word: bring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which Mr. Brisbane did not approve: atheists, "half-baked" college boys, gamblers, "brain-trusters." In his editorials Mr. Brisbane long affected to despise professional pugilism, liked to point out that "a gorilla could lick them all." Actually he frequently attended big fights, once had Sport Editor Danny Parker bring colored Fisticuffer Joe Louis around for a chat...
Japanese incredulity was based on years of painful experience in which it nearly always turns out that Chinese outsmart Japanese until the sons of Nippon bring up overwhelming force. Premier Koki Hirota of Japan has just had his Cabinet publicly spanked by the Privy Council for having baited Stalin and made a pact with Hitler (TIME. Dec. 7). Last week Mr. Hirota was able to advise the Son of Heaven that in China events were transpiring which could only mean that the Japanese Cabinet had been right and the Privy Council wrong. Nearly all Japanese were entirely convinced that what...
...understand that in your country there are certain marriages where the bridegroom has to be-shall we say, cajoled. You didn't by any chance bring a shotgun with...
...Take It With You is deliberately banal. Two young lovers are nearly parted because of their families, a dramatic situation which has not grown any younger since Pyramus & Thisbe. So theatrically threadbare is this narrative scheme that it takes an ignited dish of red fire to bring down the first act curtain, an off-stage explosion to close Act II. These punctuations are, however, not really necessary for in creating Grandpa Vanderhof (Henry Travers) and his clan -the Girl's family which the Boy's family views with alarm-the playwrights have conjured a species of dramatis personae...
...observer viewed two stars, one much farther away than the other but both in the same line of sight, the bending of light around the near star should make the far star appear as a luminous ring. Actually no telescope now in use would be powerful enough to bring out this halo, and the phenomenon, if ever observed at all, would appear simply as an increase in brightness of the far star...