Word: guessing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discordant tone." The National Socialist Militant League for German Culture said: "As Germans we are convinced that artistically adequate interpreters of the works of Wagner will be found." Frau Wagner hastily announced that Composer Richard Strauss will conduct the opening Parsifal. Who else will be found is hard to guess...
...much surprised as the Roxbury trustees. Among his colleagues, Professor Conant has always been regarded as one who would be faithful to science forever, a dashing and daring fellow rather than a plodder, a little unorthodox, perhaps, but wedded to chemistry. "Why on earth--?" asked his intimates. "I guess it's my sense of adventure," he replied. It is generally agreed he is a great loss to science. In research, his guesses at explanations and results were uncannily accurate. His students claimed, a bit resentfully, that he had an intuitive flair for chemistry, as some men have a flair...
...doctors noted that the wizened, little brown body had failed with amazing rapidity but was organically sound. They ventured a guess that it might survive its "unconditional, irrevocable" three- week fast. India's Hindu millions who look on Gandhi as little less than a god, prayed that it would...
...employed as a messenger in the Ministry of Marine. His job was to carry important documents from one office to another, also to collect and burn all waste paper in every office every night. Documents he photographed or copied. From the scrap-basket scribblings he managed to guess very shrewdly just what plans were under consideration. The beautiful Camilla smuggled the documents out of the country to France and Jugoslavia in the frames of oil paintings. Both confessed, both were condemned to death though King Vittorio Emmanuele forestalled French martyrdom by commuting Camilla's sentence to life imprisonment...
...name is Jamil (Ramon Novarro) and he is first seen functioning, for reasons of his own, as a guide to tourists in a Cairo hotel. When the proud but passionate fiancee (Myrna Loy) of a swagger young Englishman arrives to see the sights, it is not hard to guess how Jamil will show them to her. He kidnaps her in the desert, sings to her, takes her to his native village, beats her, lets her go back to Cairo to marry her Britisher, abducts her once more just before the ceremony. For cinemaddicts of the current crop...