Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Loew's Orpheum: "Outeast Lady"--Constance Bennett is getting a bit tire-some as the good bad lady who plays with fire until her pretty little fingers get burned. This latest film is not any different from other Bennett attempts and it falls somewhat flat...
...alone, and very dejected looking, a baby Austin with a bad case of flat feet was found at a late hour last night plumped in the middle of the Dunster House court. Investigation failed to reveal how it could have made entrance, as the Stillman gate was closed. It was suggested by some amateur Dick Tracy that it must have been born on the premises, perhaps the illegitimate offspring of some dissipated Rolls-Royce. But the birth certificate, taken out in Pennsylvania and identifying the wee one as No. UV-134, seems to indicate that the baby must have been...
...difficult for an audience which wanted to begin the season with music it knew well and loved. The Philharmonic engaged Klemperer to be "spokesman for the internationally modern composer." And true to his calling he played Schönberg's gilded transcription of Bach's E Flat Prelude and Fugue and Sibelius' stark Second Symphony...
Winds gradually abate in fury. A spot of pure, translucent blue can be seen now through the inky heaven. Clouds disappear like magic. Great quantities of sand settle on the cold plain like rain on a marshy flat. The Simoon is gone! Oaths from native drivers bring struggling beasts to their feet. Loads are replaced, straps tightened. Hearts beat high again with hope. Endless journey across the white sands of the Gobi is resumed . . . and the Vagabond travels to Chinese 11 to hear Mr. Gardner in his charming and inimitable manner recount dramatically life in the Far East...
...year Dr. Theophilus Shickel Painter of University of Texas found cross bands on the giant chromosomes which he thought might have something to do with gene locality. Then affable, bushy-haired Dr. Bridges refined his photomicrographic technique to such a point that the chromosomes appeared as twisted strings of flat, irregular beads, and the cross bands were seen to be mosaics of infinitesimal cylinder ends. Dr. Bridges did not identify either bands or cylinders with the genes themselves, but by last week three known and one unknown gene had been traced to a set of four bands, and the others...