Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sept. 12, 1918, the new wooden steamer Dumaru sailed from San Fran- cisco with a cargo of gasoline and explosives for Honolulu, Guam and Manila. In her Wartime camouflage she looked "like a clown on an evil sea." The grisly tale of what happened to her and her crew was told to Author Lowell Thomas by one of the survivors, Fritz Harmon, first assistant engineer...
...information for an hour two or three times a week and then asks for certain amounts of it back in periodical examinations. Neither the professor nor the student needs to be more than half awake for the process to go on--the professor may regard it as a necessary evil in the way of his pet occupation of research or writing; the student feels that if he fills his seat and makes some show of taking notes he is doing his part...
...motion picture is primarily interested in entertaining. Its field is the drama of life. It is a mirror held up to nature. It presents the evil with the good, but goes farther than real life by showing the triumph of right over wrong. The motion picture as a medium of entertainment and in presenting the drama of life does not knowingly misrepresent American life, as your correspondent charges, any more than the newspapers in printing the news of everyday life...
...less effective because a conventional love-interest has been added to the activities of a crazy one-legged sea-captain who wanted to get even with a whale. Across tremendous horizons the camera's eye wheels after the tiny whaling boat chasing a corporate phantom of monstrous, inhuman evil. All the work that a camera can do with great spaces and wild things is done, pictorially, as it should be. This Moby Dick is not a masterpiece. The concentration of the novel, the pressure of a mania growing until it makes the whale itself a Lilliputian thing, a mental cosine...
...compound of a half-dozen violently familiar melodramas. Among the complications moves an unhappy woman who always wears a black veil and who in the end turns out to be the long-lost mother of one of the characters. There is also an unscrupulous society woman, her evil brother, and a country girl whom an artist from the East finds bathing at dawn in a mountain pool. Blond Una Merkel takes the part of this young girl. That her good looks and slow, intense voice will make her important before long is the only interesting suggestion conveyed by the whole...