Word: dieses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sins of Man (Twentieth Century-Fox). Sad, simple and superfluous, this picture depicts the mishaps of one Christopher Freyman (Jean Hersholt), bell ringer in the Tyrolean town of Zanebruck. Christopher's wife dies, his younger son is deaf & dumb, his elder son gets killed in a plane crash, Zanebruck...
A middle-aged man is walking along a street, or standing in talk with a friend, or sitting with a magazine. Suddenly a look of surprise and terror wells into his face. He clutches at his heart, droops, collapses, in a few minutes is dead. "Heart failure," announces the ambulance...
"Capacity for the nobler feelings .... in the majority of young persons .... speedily dies away if the occupation to which their position in life has devoted them .... (is) not favorable to keeping that capacity in exercise. Men lose their higher aspirations as they lose their intellectual tastes, because they have not...
Venice in the 18th Century was supposed to be Europe's No. I good-time town. Actually it was a dirty, provincial, poverty-stricken backwater whose magnificent buildings, heirlooms of a great past, looked down once a year on a second-rate carnival. The rest of the year Venetian...
Dasha, pretty, passionate, intelligent, has come to Petersburg to study law and live with her married sister, Katia, whose husband, Smokovnikov, is a lawyer of liberal politics. In Katia's intelligentsiac salon Dasha meets the evil Bessonov, poet of despair, who has already seduced her sister and almost hypnotizes...