Word: buoyant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coach Ulen detected a poorly-disguised flutter-kick in the Australian's breastroking and promptly disqualified him. Charlie Hutter combined track with swimming by clambering out of the pool after each lap and sprinting around the edge, in a futile effort to catch Kendall. He was hampered by a buoyant attire of three life-rings and two pairs of waterwings. The medley was the only scratch event, the others being run on a handicap basis...
...some ways the buoyant, penniless, unbreakable Bronson Alcott-who bounced up and down as good-naturedly as if the path from success to failure was the most pleasant and natural one in the world-symbolized this spirit better than anyone else...
...opening day, about 60% came from curious women, 20% from tired business men who generally had their secretaries put the calls through for them. It's Love I'm After, not a mugs' picture, needs no such furtive blurbing. It is refreshing, impudent fun: a buoyant cinema making faces at its precise old aunt, the theatre. Actor Leslie Howard (Hamlet to Broadway a season ago) makes most of the faces, in the role of an aging matinee idol whose charms are fatal to impressionable clubwomen, gushing schoolgirls. To his leading lady (Bette Davis, happily restored to comedy...
Producer Miller's first importation this year is Author Rattigan's first successful play of any year. It is buoyant, imponderably slight. Its setting is the living room of M. Maingot's villa in the south of France, whither a group of young Englishmen have come to learn French in preparation for the ''diplomatic'' and to have their lives complicated by a predatory lass, lithely represented by Penelope Dudley Ward. The play is joyously, if inexpertly, served by the younger characters of its cast (Philip Friend, Cyril Raymond, Hubert Gregg, Jacqueline Porel), Veterans...
Last week the contradictory novelist-politician offered his 43rd volume in the form of a story of the self-help co-operative movement of California. It is a typical Sinclair novel. It has a good deal of the sunny, buoyant, irrepressible uplift spirit that has distinguished all his writing since he published The Jungle in 1906, the journalistic flare that keeps even his crusading potboilers rattling along at a good clip, a large cast of those singleminded, two-dimensional, easily-stirred individuals who seem to be more frequently encountered in Sinclair's fiction than anywhere else. The co-operative...