Word: dubious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story is based on the somewhat dubious theme that a child of nature should not be forced to endure the strict letter of the white man's law, but before the film is half an hour old, one hates the stupidity of colonial government and everything about it. There is an express- ive and all inclusive word which fits the characters presented by Messrs. Raymond Massey and John Carradine to a T. Mr. Massey feels it incumbent upon him to dog the innocent tracks of Jon Hall, native swimmer, sailor, lover, and physical specimen extraordinary, Mr. Carradine taking a sadistic...
...crony (Robert Benchley) walk out on him, taking much of life's beauty and all of its humor back to Washington Square, Painter Montgomery hits the skids. Near bottom his eye lights on a ghetto lad selling flowers. He collars him, explains to the boy's dubious mother that he wants to paint the lad. Says she: ''What color?" From then on Mammon begins losing rounds. The escapade winds up with reconciled principals pushing puffy Mr. Palmiston through the portrait of Blue Bolt...
Twenty-eight-year-old Author Sommerfield, whose education was, as he says, "dubious," ducked school at 16 and worked as sailor, carpenter, stage manager, had one novel published, May Day, before enlisting for Spain. Volunteering in October 1936, he saw six months action, was at one time reported dead, returned this spring to England "to discredit this rumor," is now living in Lancashire...
...succeeding generations as a sort of protoplasmal memory. Natural Selection holds that accidental variations which happen to be favorable to the organism will be preserved by the survival of the fittest. Lamarckism is in general disrepute for the simple reason that evidence for it is scanty and dubious. The grosser physical aspects of it have long been disproved, notably by the classic experiment of Weismann who cut off the tails of generation after generation of mice without stopping the next generation from being born with full-length tails. But a few Lamarckists still insist that imponderables like acquired habits...
...hostess,' said Tilley, coldly. 'Provided by the livery stable. Another dubious wonder of the modern world. In the event of emergency, she will be the one to walk to the nearest farmhouse, give the alarm, and be photographed.* Well, au revoir!' The coachman whipped up his cob, and the little party rumbled off along Fifty-ninth Street, Tilley brandishing his brassie with great ferocity at a horsefly. As we turned, we discovered to our surprise that the sidewalk, where he had paused a moment, was a pool of tears...