Word: faints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mormonism sprang from the mind of Joseph Smith, who was born in Vermont in 1805, grew up on a Manchester, N.Y. farm, and hated to plow. He was handsome, tall, wavy-haired, had long eyelashes and a faint but unmistakable resemblance to Comic Danny Kaye. He had a fecund imagination and an instinctive sense of drama and command. At 18 he professed to be able to look into a "peep stone" and find hidden gold. He found none...
...three years at Lincoln Park, Perkins has already done an impressive job of brightening up and modernizing. To start with, he rewrote almost every label in the place so that visitors could get at least a faint bit of information about his animals. He set up a Zooanswer Shop, where people could have their curiosity about animals satisfied. (No. 1 question: "What is the gestation period of an elephant?" Answer: 19 to 21 months.) He repainted cages. He opened a Zoorookery (a cageless exhibit of scores of pinioned birds). And he enlarged the reptile exhibit...
There remained only a faint possibility of compromise with the Russians. Paris had been the last chance for One Europe (a U.S. reporter had dubbed the Parrot Salon, where the Ministers met, the "Last Chance Saloon"). For those nations which wanted to take part, the U.S. could push the Marshall Plan ahead without Russia. Eastern European nations would be forced by Russia to stay out. If western and central Europe recovered more rapidly, eastern Europeans would not thank Russia for blocking their recovery. It would be years before Russia, recovering very slowly (see FOREIGN NEWS), could help her satellites. Meanwhile...
...laughs, and there are some funny scenes about moviemaking, in which she is stoutly abetted by William Demarest as a director, by Constance Collier as a high-nosed old ham actress, and by such old masters of journeyman slapstick as Chester Conklin and Snub Pollard. There is some faint hint of the toughness of the people who made the old movies, and a fair suggestion of the way they did their work, like children making up games as they went along...
Fear and excitement may make a man blush, sweat, turn pale, run a high blood pressure or faint-or he may just keep a poker face. But under emotional stress, no man, however impassive, can keep his finger tips from palpitating. To A.M.A. conventioneers two young Tulane Medical School doctors exhibited a machine that indicates the state of a man's emotions by "listening" to his finger tips...