Word: erful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...larynx. It is one of the few incidents in the picture that really concerns the professional problems of a female physician. The rest of Mary Stevens, M.D. is about Mary Stevens' non-professional activities which are almost entirely unfortunate. She becomes infatuated with a ne'er-do-well surgeon (Lyle Talbot) who marries the blonde daughter (Thelma Todd) of a bigwig politician and deserts his serious interest in medicine for spasmodic practice in a city clinic. When Surgeon Andrews has tired of his wife and is planning a divorce, Mary takes up with him again and soon...
...great billposting concerns, which appreciate that advertising which arouses strong criticism is bad business. . . . The Society has long been gravely concerned by the increasing disfigurement of picturesque country villages and small towns by advertisements of various proprietary articles: tea, cocoa, tobacco, cigarettes, soap, starch, poultry food, dog biscuits and, er- what not, displayed promiscuously on shops and other premises where they are sold. The Society has been endeavoring to find a way of controlling such advertisements without abolishing them, and the Home Office has now sanctioned a new model form of exemption. ... Its general effect is to allow a tradesman...
...story is a frantic little fantasy about a collection of ne'er-do-wells who lead trampish lives in the shrubbery of Manhattan's Central Park; and particularly about their captain (Jolson) who knows the Mayor (Frank Morgan). Jolson finds a purse belonging to the Mayor's girl (Madge Evans), finds the girl herself when she has a stroke of amnesia, and restores her to her friend after falling in love with her himself...
...Udklip Du sendte mig passer ikke altsammen. Kirken er kun en Kryslitkirke, saa den er hverken ny eller smuk og Kroen ligger heller ikke lige overfor, men et godt Stykke derfra, men ellers er det rigtigt. Det er en af vore gode Bekendte Praesten som har Kroen, han var gift med en Søster til Murmenster Andersens Kone. Jeg tror nok det har kostet ham en Masse Penge...
...downs. Many a lesser man, making light of Chaucer's archaic English, has tried to re-drape his sturdy uncouthness in modern dress. 17th-century Poet John Dryden ("Chaucer, I confess, is a rough Diamond; and must first be polish'd e'er he shines") was one. Latest is Columbia Professor George Philip Krapp. Partly because new books are scarce around Christmastime, partly because Random House books look well on any shelves, partly because Editors Carl Van Doren and Joseph Wood Krutch were "terribly enthusiastic," the Literary Guild has chosen Troilus & Cressida as its December book. Keeping...