Word: itselfâ
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cinema technique when each is properly handled. On the stage The Criminal Code was a parable. The misfortunes heaped on the protagonist?a boy who learns in prison how to be a criminal? were fashioned to provide a lesson. As a cinema, the realism of scenes in the prison itself???the cells, yard, jute-mill, dungeons ?pours life into the theatrical skeleton. Even the romance between Robert Graham and the warden's daughter (Constance Cummings) is not as absurd as it might have been and at no time does The Criminal Code rely for its effect on vaudeville...
...matter bluntly, Mr. MacDonald and Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden have been driven by overpowering political forces?perhaps by British public opinion itself???almost to abandon their first love: Socialism...
...until he was 80 did his fatal illness manifest itself???an affection of the heart. That was complicated by other troubles, which required an operation last summer. During the fall he lost the use of his legs, two weeks ago his condition became worse, and in the last few days before his death he sank rapidly until his faintly beating heart ceased altogether...
...example, in the case of amendments to the Constitution. That document says that amendments be- come effective when adopted by Congress and "ratified by three-fourths of the States." Apparently rejection does not count; only ratification. But suppose that a state ratifies and then reverses itself???either before or after an amendment has been proclaimed adopted?what effect would such action have? It has never been settled...