Word: justly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The whole thing is perhaps too casual for the stage, which, though always professing to hold the mirror up to nature, yammers if things are not catchily focused, neatly glued together, sharply climaxed. Morning's at Seven not only builds toward very little, but is vagrant in method, minor...
Further, the four distinct plots of A Midsummer-Night's Dream, which clog it plenty as a play, virtually wreck it as a musical. Helena, Hermia & Co. prove just as ghastly bores running loose in the wooded outskirts of New Orleans as in the Athenian groves. Nor are some...
Gestures in which Darwin displayed greatest interest were: 1) monkey-like "contraction of muscles around the eyes just before crying"; and 2) pouting. "A dear young lady near here," he wrote, "plagued a very young child for my sake, till he cried and I saw the eyebrows for a second...
Social scientists have a story about the social scientist who measured the intelligence of convicts in prison. He found it just as high as the intelligence of the civil population, delivered a popular lecture on his finding. A woman in the audience got up and asked him what intelligence was...
> Among all of York's prosperous, loose-pocket citizenry, few were in more of a holiday mood than farmers from outlying Biglerville. Reason: Biglerville calls itself "AppleSauce Capital of the U. S." and the U. S. Navy had just placed an order there for several hundred tons of it...