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...movie is saved from being a complete waste of celluloid it is by the star and her director. No one who remembers the "Merry Widow" can quite forgive Von sternberg his recent perpetrations, but "use doth breed a habit in a man" and the director has not been able to discard his former habits of originality and his finesse, even though sloppy work is now the mode for Hollywood. He knows very well how to make a good shot, how to make five extra and Marlene Dietrich Paddling about in a property pound look like six syivan nymphs...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/18/1932 | See Source »

...Israel watcheth over each, and? doth not watch for nought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Twilighter | 4/25/1932 | See Source »

...wonderful works that God miraculously wrought in between heaven above and the earth beneath in six days and seven nights, I swear to execute the laws of the Isle justly between our sovereign lord the King and his subjects as indifferently as the herring's backbone doth lie in the midst of the fish." Indulgently a Manx elder explained: "The backbone of a herring lies 'indifferently'-that is without any 'difference' or deviation to the right or the left-in the fish. Our ancient deemster's oath is a constant reminder that herring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Indifferent Herringbone | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

...unto you, whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be jor fornication, and shall marry another, committing adultery; and whose married her which is put away doth commit adultery.-Matthew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Prelude to Denver | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

...Pearce's old mare doth appear gashly white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Apr. 27, 1931 | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

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