Word: contrivedness
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Elegant in phrase, lyric in tone and innocent of harsh technicalities, a broad review of modern trends in his own field is what the British Association for the Advancement of Science has come to expect of its president, at its annual get-together for exchange of news and views. This...
When Joseph Schenck and his Twentieth Century Pictures quit United Artists to merge with Fox last June, the remaining owner-producers (Mary Pickford, Samuel Goldwyn, Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks) hastily set about compensating for their loss. First, David O. Gelznick decided to leave Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, form his own producing...
The thoughtful and honest adaptation by Screenwriters Clemence Dane, S. N. Behrman and Salka Viertal starts with the meeting of Vronsky and Anna at the railroad station in Moscow. Its major passages are the ball at which Vronsky falls in love with Anna; the spring afternoon in St. Petersburg when...
After an hour and a half of the kind of undemonstrative growling and groveling of which most wrestling addicts heartily disapprove although they know it signifies the sincerity of the bout they are watching, Wrestler O'Mahoney contrived to throw his opponent over the ropes. Rules specified that George...
¶ In Asbury Park, Heavyweight Champion Max Baer, rehearsing for a radio skit while training for his June 13 fight with James J. Braddock, contrived to shoot himself in the chest with a revolver loaded with a blank cartridge. He was hospitalized for powder burns.