Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mice for experimentation," Dr. Little went on, "because in one year they reach the cancer peak equivalent to that of a 40-year-old human. It takes a rabbit six years, and a horse 15 to reach the same stage in their development...
...disillusion and the gnawing vacuum of unfaith make life impossible. Track, the guilty gangster, has fallen into the customary, neurotic madness of killers; everybody connected with his crime must be silenced before he can feel safe. Mio and Miriamne are hopelessly entangled in this web of social injustice and human madness and for them there is but one moment of ecstatic communion before the staccato beat of the machine gun snaps their bonds...
...addition, $500 will be paid for all articles considered acceptable for publication. "An illuminating human experience occurring to anyone in a position to observe human nature: the desire to recognize a fine accomplishment; all of these and more, if the magic touch is added, can be translate into articles of winning quality," the Digest announcement states, explaining the contest...
Threatening the very foundations of civilization, the custom of allowing the female to pursue the male with the approbation of convention is at the present moment the most destructive influence in human relations. History proves time and again that running contrariwise to nature has but one inevitable outcome-destruction. It may be pointed out that the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world; but, once every four years man closes his eyes, woman dons the pants, the hand seen rocking the cradle is a hairy, masculine one, and the female claw still clutches its cherished...
...others of a similar comic "genre". The plot is one of clean drawing-room intrigue, arising from the misunderstanding of misplaced letters. And yet in spite of its conventional nineteenth-century machinery, the film is genuinely amusing. The lines are distinguished by their delightful penetration into the incongruities of human character; and they are spoken superbly. As is rare in an American movie, but usual in a French, each character is an individual. The expressive nuances of gesture and intonation, which distinguish French acting, are in delightful abundance. Jeanne Cheirel, a French Alison Skipworth, is gruffly ingratiating as the Duchesse...