Word: injection
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrova (UFA). For the last year UFA has been making an obvious attempt to inject its product with box-office values imitated from Hollywood?an attempt which has not been very successful because the Hollywood patterns selected for imitation have all been a year or two old. The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrova is a sombre melodrama about a young woman who leaves a Russian general to become the mistress of a lieutenant and who goes back to the general again to save her lover, a cheat at cards, from public disgrace. It is familiar material...
...June issue of the Good Housekeeping magazine entitled "Sheepskin Blues." Bruce Barton discusses that ever present question of what shall the college graduate do after graduation. For once it seems this topic is intelligently treated and the usual gloomy outlook that most of our pessimistic magazine writers inject in a discussion of this kind is lacking...
...performance that is easily as good as any that she has given in the past. She does not appear to as good advantage as in "The Last of Mrs. Cheney" perhaps because there she was given a sparkling play with which to work, but she shows that she can inject into a mediocre adaptation from a novel enough life and personality to enable the movie-goer to spend a pleasant afternoon or evening...
Declining to "inject his personal opinion" into the present naval controversy. Sims pointed out, however, that the submarine, which has the power of attacking unseen, is a weapon to which there is as yet no adequate answer...
...seems that the Senate now acts more often not to "cool off" legislation, but to inject heat. Possibly the independent thinking is only individual advertising...