Word: cleverly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bland orange-yellow of sodium-vapor lamps now lights hundreds of miles of U. S. highway. Until recently it has been a ticklish and costly job to get the sodium into the highly evacuated lamps without contamination. Last week General Electric Co.'s laboratories at Schenectady announced a clever new way of filling the bulbs. The sodium is packaged in tiny, frail glass capsules, a capsule placed inside each lamp, the lamp pumped out and sealed. Then short radio waves are turned on the capsule. It heats up, explodes. The sodium is thus freed inside the lamp...
Last week England's great Cartoonist David Low returned for the third time to gaze his fill at an art exhibition in London. What fascinated him was not the work of any contemporary, but 317 devilish clever and prodigiously scurrilous drawings, French and English, from the Great Age of Caricature-1750 to 1850. A bit of hands-across-the-sea, this show was timed by its sponsors, the Anglo-French Art & Travel Society, to coincide with Anglo-French political rapprochement, as a similar show of English caricatures in Paris last spring anticipated the visit of the King & Queen (TIME...
...KEITH MEMORIAL--Little Miss Fixit, alias Deanna Durbin, wends her charming way through another of the average stories Hollywood has bestowed on her, and comes out on top by virtue of a clever script, her own unforced gaiety, and the really remarkable Durbin voice. Those who cringe at the mere mention of sentimentality are not gong to enjoy "Three smart Girls Grow Up," for there are the inevitable "intimate" bedroom scenes, tear-besmirched love affairs, and deep, dark young-girl secrets. But the sentiment is seasoned with humor-as, indeed, the whole film is; Charles Winninger, a hopelessly absentminded Wall...
Clifton Webb, Estelle Winwood, and Hope Williams have teamed up to instill life and pace into the vast windy spaces of Wilde's epigrammatic concoction. Wilde was a clever dramatist, but drunk with his own scintillating wit; as a result the first act is long-winded and talky. After that an excellent cast makes the most of the play's indisputable Victorian charm...
...main objection to this band is that it plays a stereotyped style of music, very often not original. By clever buildup and publicity the public has been led to believe that this is the real thing in swing. Shallow stuff like this will lead the listening audience to become very tired of something they have been told was swing, and therefore to condemn it. "Swing is a verb, not a noun." You can play things in swing, but there is no such thing as a swing tune. Without good, sincere swing men in the band, unhampered by stiff, copied arrangements...