Word: devil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...centrosome separates and moves to opposite sides, the chromosomes line up in the middle and then split evenly; then some thing nips in the sides of the cell to a wasp-waisted constriction, and finally the cell divides into two healthy duplicates of its original self. Biologists have the devil's own time trying to explain this mysterious, well-drilled maneuver. In Strömberg's view, it is initiated and controlled by an "immaterial wave of organization." Though immaterial, the guiding wave has a structure in spacetime. Strömberg calls it a "genie" (plural, "genii...
Strange Cargo (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is The Passing of the Third Floor Back, laid in Devil's Island and environs instead of in a cheap London lodging-house. Tall, bland, humorous-eyed Ian Hunter is the Christlike central figure. The tangled lives he sets right are not those of petty, shabby, roominghouse misfits, but such splendid votaries of violence as Clark Gable (Convict Verne), Joan Crawford (a fille de joie wearing Miss Crawford's best Oh-God-the-pity-of-it facial), Paul...
...made A Farewell to Arms. Part it derives from the fact that all the actors are as perfectly typed as Joan Crawford, who, under one guise or another, has been playing Sadie Thompson so long that the part is almost second nature. Like her, Hollywood has been making Devil's Island pictures so long it has almost perfected the formula. This perfect Hollywood formula is turned into a highly unusual picture by the surprising performance of Ian Hunter as the Christlike convict. Always in danger of seeming preposterous, Cinemactor Hunter manages to be natural and supernatural at the same...
...Herbert S. Morrison wanted "more vigor and liveliness" in war and diplomacy than he felt Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who turned 71 at week's end, has been giving. Retired Permanent Secretary to the Treasury Sir Warren Fisher was blunter. "We are up against the creed of the devil," he said...
...jockey loses his bug (the five-pound weight advantage allowed first-year riders, dubbed "bug" because of the asterisk that precedes the weights of bug-ridden horses on race programs). But Jockey Jack Flinchum, a baby-faced 17-year-old who looks like an angel and rides like the devil, has in the past three months become the darling of U. S. racing fans...