Word: brutish
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...customarily treats the classics, is a pictorially beautiful adaptation of Hermann Sudermann's famed novel. It shows Marlene Dietrich, sinning as usual, but not without good reason. She is Lily Czepanek, a Berlin model who suffers successively from associations with a drunken, tyrannical aunt, a faithless lover, a brutish husband and a riding master...
...year the aviation industry was busy building planes to fly airline passengers faster than they had ever been flown before. Last week the first of the new crop, the Boeing "247," fastest multi-motored passenger ship in the world, was in regular transcontinental service on United Air Lines. Big, brutish low-wing monoplanes with twin Wasp engines, the new Boeings whipped back & forth between San Francisco and New York in 21½ hr. westbound, 20 hr. eastbound-about 10 hr. faster than former schedules. On the New York- Chicago run the new ships heated the already hot competition between United...
TIME YOUR JUDGMENT HAS FLED TO BRUTISH BEASTS IMAGINE A ROMAN CATHOLIC SECRETARY OF WAR IN A KLU KLUX ANTI SALOON ADMINISTRATION TIME ACT YOUR AGE PATRICK HURLEY DOES NOT PROFESS THE ROMAN CATHOLIC FAITH...
...weeks' rest she swims off again-in search of a mate. Him she finds in Martin, erstwhile lawyer, who is quickly adapting himself to the laws of nature-storing up loot for the winter, beating off dogs that have already turned wolflike, and finally battling with brutish fellows for the possession of his woman...
...exquisite and the absurd. To dare this hovering was a brave thing and Author Fuller's feat of bringing Alma credibly through from naive immigrant to disillusioned but still saintly New England housekeeper, is a remarkable one. Her repeated rejections, by men so various as Niels, a brutish fellow immigrant, and Eric Rasmussen, a now prosperous childhood friend in distant Walla Walla; her capture of a paralytic Civil War veteran; and the one proposal of her lifetime from the genteel but seedy "young master" of her final situation, would be ludicrous, were not Alma's extreme case handled...