Word: elements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order element in Honolulu, a leader of which is Walter Francis Dillingham, island-born, polo-playing Harvardman (ex-1902), whose immense wealth comes from sugar & utilities, appointed a new police chief and reorganized the generally inefficient police department. New chief was Charles F. Weeber, formerly of Harrisburg, Pa. Since 1920, when he retired from the Army, Chief Weeber has been Tycoon Dillingham's private secretary...
Energies of that vast order are released when in a blazing star a heavy atom of matter sheds protons and electrons and becomes a lighter element...
...this picture (Wynne Gibson) does so while intoxicated, mistaking a pair of glass doors which open on an airshaft for those which lead to the room where her inebriated guests are querulously listening to the barkings of a rolltop radio. The death of the villainess removes the last element of gaiety from the picture, permits Phillips Holmes, as a mustachioed playboy, and Miriam Hopkins, as a nice girl from the West, to obtain parental consent for matrimony. The involved train of events in Two Kinds of Women?adapted from Robert E. Sherwood's play This is New York?makes...
Heat & Sex, The outer case of an egg is its female element, the stuffing its male element, with temperature determining the predominance of either, contended Dr. Emil Witschi of the University of Iowa. To support his argument he showed pictures of incubating frog eggs. Those which were maintained at 59° F. grew thick shells, became female polliwogs. Those maintained at 82° F. developed big insides, turned into male tadpoles...
...know that Heather will presently get into the U. S., eventually nod her head when Mr. Farrell asks her a certain question. A mediocre score by George Gershwin and the Swedish comicalities of El Brendel are adjuncts of Delicious. Like other Gaynor-Farrell romances, the picture also has an element which is almost impossible to explain?an element of spontaneity and charm. Typical shot: Heather having fun with a musical bottle which tinkles when she lifts it. Janet Gaynor's first noticeable role in the cinema was that of a girl who got wet in The Johnstown Flood. Before that...