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...rare occasion when one can go to a movie and emit unrestrained guffaws for an hour and a half. "The Women in His Life" gives you this opportunity. And you can thank that superb actor Otto Kruger, who was considered a shot in the legitimate theatre. He bounds boisterously about the sets as though he were a drunken arthropod. His eyes roll diabolically, his cheeks puff, his ears crackle when he is aroused. What an actor...
Giraffes have vocal cords and. when startled, emit staccato grunts, rousing snorts...
...banker as a Machiavellian combination of incompetence and dishonesty is shocking, but not unexpected. There is, however, nothing to be gained by heaping contumely on the heads of these men as they don sackcloth and ashes; distrusted by the public, assailed by the government, they are only able to emit feeble chirps about individualism. Rather is this the time for remedial legislation...
...hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the University of the State of New York has caused the more articulate notables in the educational world to emit loud and extravagant hosannas of praise. The very fact that this flood of verbiage is so completely unrestrained, however, indicates not that the educators are filled with a supreme and justified self-confidence, but that they are on the defensive against attacks made upon them and their system...
...peculiarity of this statue was, that at dawning, while still covered with the tears of [his mother] Eos, it was his custom to emit a curious sound of metallic quality, much to the amazement of the temple dancing girls assembled on the sands of the desert to do him honor...