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Word: flaw (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loves nobody, and as such as one to whom the more loss of a husband should mean nothing. She is too beautiful not to acquire another just as she would acquire another vase for the broken one. Despite the buildup, however, the end shows her desolate. That is a flaw...

Author: By M. F. E., | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/20/1937 | See Source »

Artistically the picture falls below the best. Inaccuries comprise the chief flaw. Beside the inclusion of psychological untruths, such as the unrepentance of Mr. Talor after his carelessness has caused death, there is a painful plenty of physical ills...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 10/13/1937 | See Source »

Only major flaw in the Electrical Workers' film was that it was already outdated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: More and Better Strikes | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

...good judgment to leave the story almost exactly as it was written and the skill to match Author Hilton's verbal talent with pictorial subtlety. After this week's opening, most critics held Lost Horizon as fine a cinema as it is a book. Its one flaw is Director Capra's one major deviation from the novel-a happy ending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 8, 1937 | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

Over from Brooklyn Navy Yard came U. S. Rear Admiral Harris Laning to make a little speech. Up from Washington came British Captain F. C. Bradley, R. N. to make another. These seadogs found no technical flaw in Soldier Clegg's work, for Soldier Clegg had with great accuracy noted on the spot every shell splash, turret and barbette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Jutland on Canvas | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

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