Word: enjoyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reader's taste in such things, and leave an impression of leisurely chuckling over life, with some admixture of the entomologists insect-on-the-pin curiosity. Unquestionably, no one will be purged by this book, nor will he mount through it to an ivory tower; but nearly everyone will enjoy it, and nearly everyone will remember for at least an hour after reading it that he is human...
...symbol. Here was a judicial opinion which, a few years before, might have caused bonfires to be lit from Coast to Coast as the tocsin rang out its warning to the pure in mind. It was couched in language which almost any intelligent person might read and even enjoy, being free from the customary pomposity and elephantic periods of the bench. It stated quite clearly that to call a sincere effort "to show how the screen of consciousness with its ever shifting kaleidoscopic impressions carries, as it were on a plastic palimpsest, not only what is in the focus...
...goes. If you like this bundle of grunting, r'aring sox, you will doubtless enjoy her latest movie. The opus lacks the freshness of the first, partly for the reason that Miss West's favorite remarks to males have been publicized to the point of near extinction, and partly for the reason that few, if any, new ones have been added. The gags in the picture have apparently been ground out by some studio back with a memory stopping at the year 1918, and with a bad case of the jitters; the music, if you care to call it such...
...There is no need to keep the Weld boathouse open all winter with employees paid merely to repair the shells. There is no reason why athletes should not pay for their own trophies and sweaters at the end of the season. There is no reason why the crew should enjoy a two-week's sojourn at Red Top every spring...
...spite of all this, busty-wusty West has enough push to put it over satisfactorily, if you are only seeking an afternoon's entertainment. Her walk and her accent, for those who like them, are there. Even professors of ancient Gaelic and students of the Urdu verb forms will enjoy hearing her sing "I've found a new way to go to town," and lechery, after all, is always to the point. An excellent shot, which seems to give promise that the old girl can act, is that in which Mae shows her presents to a friend; you will...