Word: fed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lately been given credit for being. The fact that his widely heralded Bunion Derby has been buried on back pages of the daily press ever since the starting gun is no cause for worry. It is a well-known maxim that the public, like the sea elephant, can be fed a good deal but when fed too much gets nauseated. No one knows this better than the wary Mr. Pyle...
Dewar: "Did you ever say you were fed up with the ship on which I was your flag captain...
Collard: "I said I was fed up with...
...Army. "I do not think," writes Miss Thompson, "that anyone who has ever seen a Red Army demonstration will ever again treat Communism as a joke. . . . The army is ... well fed, well clothed and well housed ... a compact army of 562,000 . . . absolutely proletarian in its sympathies...
...however, you are like the reviewer and have no predetermined feeling for or against Miss Daniels, the matter becomes more difficult-if you take your movie going seriously enough to wonder about such things. The show tries awfully hard to be a roaring, ripsnorting tale of a milk-fed, misanthropic young lady-Miss Daniels-who gets mixed up in a a war among bootleggers, hi-jackers, and revenue officers. After numberless corpses have been strewn about the scene, she is able to declare that at last she has found Adventure and Romance with a capital "A" and a capital...