Word: drawbacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biggest successes were in Chicago, San Francisco, New Orleans; the most apathetic audience was in Chattanooga. Massine traveled serenely in his auto-trailer in which the only drawback was a lack of hot water. For his bath every day he stopped at a hotel, a practice which Manager Libidins soon grew to dread. In one hotel or another the absent-minded director managed to lose two rings, a gold watch, $200, a brocade dressing gown, two suits of clothes, three silver spoons, a fountain pen, a shaving brush, a Mozart score and all his evening shirts...
...Laurence Vail, by whom she has" two daughters, one named Apple (see cut). Says Expatriate Boyle: "In literature, I have never wholly liked the work of women with the exception of Gertrude Stein. Tact and complacency have long been woman's attributes, and I think they prove a drawback to good reading. They do not write simply or violently enough for my taste. I should like my prose to be lucid, direct and lean." Other books: Plagued by the Nightingale; Year Before Last; Gentlemen, I Address You Privately...
Educational Drawback...
...lone outstanding weakness of the Boston brigade a year ago was its lack of a good forward passer. Coach Dietz has more than made up for this single drawback, however, by signing a sextet of clever forward passers any one of whom appears capable of filling the bill to perfection. Five of these lossers hall from little known institutions but they have revealed already that they will add greater strength to the celebrated Boston offense. The sixth passer is the brilliant Pug Reniner of Northwestern one of the most widely known of modern football players and a great all-round...
Cleopatra is fairly faithful to history. But it has one appalling drawback. It lacks the emotion of a religious theme. Most DeMille pictures have to do with such pious subjects as The Ten Commandments (1923), The King of Kings (1927), The Sign of the Cross (1932). "A religious picture never failed," says the man who was decorated with the Order of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem in 1928. With the Bible to inspire him, he is able to conjure up breath-taking scenes of sadism, warfare and mass debauchery on the part of ancients who did not believe...