Word: defective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Machiavellianism" and "The New Bourgeoisie," it often resolves itself into summary, and nothing more. The biographical vignettes, of Disraeli, Wilde and others are striking and original, but in several instances questionable; and there is occasionally a suspicious naivete in the point of view. This may well be a defect of the stylist and not the historian. The writing of the book certainly is marred by a sort of false urbanity and lacks the flair for effortless insinuation such as Lytton Strachey displayed in treating of the same period. Despite these minor shortcomings, Mr. Wingfield-Stratford has probably written, the most...
...gyroscopically whirling around 416 times without stopping or reversing might reasonably lead the observer to conclude that he or the mouse was drunk. Yet sober scientists have watched a sober mouse perform this very feat. The whirler was a Japanese waltzing mouse. It whirled because of a physical defect, probably of its inner...
...Arbor last week the University of Michigan's Zoologist Lee R. Dice announced to the Michigan Academy of Sciences his discovery that this ear defect is hereditary not only in the mice of Japan. He has found it in four strains of the common American deer mouse. Because this offers one of the few non-human instances in which abnormal behavior can be traced to a definite hereditary characteristic. Dr. Dice believes that further study of affected mice may help man to understand how he inherits nervous peculiarities...
...like Greta Garbo. She wears sleek clothes with severe insouciance. She acts with intelligent assurance, speaks in a strong, flat, curiously pleasant voice with the inflections of a polite upbringing in Hartford, Conn. Miss Hepburn did her first acting at Bryn Mawr, where she graduated in 1929, acquired the defect of talking too fast. Among other requisites for a U. S. Garbo, she has greenish eyes, red hair, second-hand car, distaste for socialites, willingness to wear overalls...
...high time that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences adopted a Baum's Law to punish, with progressive severity, any further thefts of Vicki Baum's Grand Hotel formula. Aside from this defect, Rome Express, by far the most successful effort yet imported from England, is a more than passable program picture. Conrad Veidt is one of the dankest villains ever to infest a wagonlit; Director Walter Forde gives you the feeling of a train, not with two reels of atmosphere shots like the ones Josef von Sternberg used in Shanghai Express but with a sharp...