Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. as was his father before him (1876)-attacked by Dr. Wilson for supporting Smith for President. Perplexity became indignation when he read Dr. Wilson's comment: "I was not so much surprised at this, for I have a distinct recollection that his father was a Presbyterian preacher of the same stripe [who] denounced the Government of the U. S., cannonaded Lincoln and advocated the extension of slavery...
Because, I believe, you typify a distinct branch of American society, the bourgeoisie shall we say, I feel that you should make allowances if my attitude exemplifies a greater interest in the progressive Indian than in the canaille...
...Divorcee (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Whether the success of Ex-Wife, the novel from which this picture is adapted, was due to its frankness on sex, or to a certain distinct and half-naive pathos in its sophisticated affectations, will make little difference to people who see The Divorcee. The film accurately reproduces all the qualities of the book, including its disorder and its occasional approach to burlesque, but Norma Shearer's beauty makes it worth watching in spite of mediocre dialog. It concerns a young couple whose happiness was disrupted because they had a habit of confessing their in fidelities...
...motion picture camera designed to photograph all the dials on an airplane instrument board during a test flight, permitting later study far more detailed than a testpilot's pencilled log could afford. ¶ A "recording multiple manometer'' which registers the varying pressures upon 120 distinct portions of the wings during all maneuvers...
...life. It is impossible to fight great battles openly, and the very character of their ideals makes open propaganda difficult. Whatever may be said against the secret societies of a generation ago, their members were not self-seeking and their ideals were defensible. "There has been a change . . . a distinct deterioration. "A new kind of secret or semisecret society has come into existence, whose object seems to be, by a kind of religious masonry, to procure business jobs and contracts for members, and they threaten, bully or cajole barristers, solicitors and businessmen into membership...