Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jews and the C. I. O. and the Communists held a meeting; he thought he heard a shot fired. Shaken but triumphant after his speech, he decided: "They driving me crazy-you know, I think this Jews are beginning to be afraid of me." But Fritz Kuhn was human: not only did he get angry, want some philosophy that made sense of his troubles-Fritz Kuhn also wanted sympathy, and not just from the Führer. And not just from quiet, patient Mrs. Kuhn...
...saliva of all these animals, said the dentists, "was notable for low bacterial count in comparison with man's." Only animal with a mouth bad enough to be nearly human : "a 30-year-old baboon with an extremely dirty mouth from which many teeth were missing...
...Catherine the Great's palace was the "mechanical" wonder of the age: laden banquet tables which, on command, rose or sank through the floor. They were manipulated by "a forest of human hands" whose owners stood waist-deep in the habitually flooded basement. Frequently the ropes broke, the tables dropped, the operators were crushed to death...
Paul Muni and James Hilton are combined in "We Are Not Alone" to produce what might easily prove the best picture of the year. A man who is one of the best actors alive has portrayed in the story adapted from Hilton's vivid novel perhaps his most thoroughly human movie role...
...occasion on which the Glee Club sings this type of program in Cambridge. It is an excellent opportunity for those who have heard these singers only in joint performances of the heavier type of vocal music to see how effective they are in the smaller works where the direct human appeal of the voice is most impressive...