Word: interwoven
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unreasonable and capricious. . . ." Like most important measures, the Public Utility Act carries a "separability" clause, which provides that invalidation of one section of an act shall not affect the rest. Said Judge Coleman: "The invalid provisions of the [Public Utility] Act ... are so multifarious and so intimately and repeatedly interwoven throughout the Act as to render them incapable of separation from such parts of the Act, if any, as otherwise might be valid. . . . Invalid parts of a law may be dropped only if what is retained is fully operative as a law. In the Public Utility Act, invalid provisions...
Last week Sacha Guitry offered a volume of reminiscence and anecdote in which such childish experiences were interwoven with buoyant observations on the theatre, genius, great actors and great hams; on the perils and joys of playwrighting; on travel, success and the frightful ordeal of being hissed after a complete and overwhelming flop. Although it traces the main outlines of his career, the chief distinction of If Memory Serves is its abundance of good stories, some sentimental, some hilarious, but each swift, effective, written with a neat black-out ending...
Although Jules Romains attempts to make each volume of his masterwork intelligible in its own right, the stories are so interwoven that Men of Good Will must be read from the beginning to be appreciated. While Jules Romains excels in his portraits of ambitious and resourceful men and outlines their maneuvers with skill, his characters are for the most part singularly even and controlled individuals. They may be troubled or at peace, but they are not ravaged by the intellectual and emotional passions that lift the characters of Joyce, of Proust, Mann and Dostoevski to more than human stature...
...other, "Four Hours to Kill," Richard Barthelmess is given top billing but is no more important than a dozen other actors, among them Joe Morrisson, Helen Mack, and Roscoe Karns. There are a tleast five plots, all good, cleverly interwoven and suspended until the final dramatic climax. The last twenty minutes of the picture are dynamite. Your Honor, you really ought to see it. It's a pity it's only one more...
...material is present for several exciting novels and a monograph on prison reform but unfortunately the two various themes are so interwoven in this biography of the pioneer prison reformer that it is all much time wasted by the reader who wants to carry away any definite impressions...