Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Texas Certificate Sirs: In your issue of TIME, Feb. 22, you said that seven States required a health certificate from the husband before marriage. Texas also requires a certificate from the male before marriage. This is in the form of a doctor's written declaration of the lack of venereal disease in the applicant...
...famous English stage actress, give excellent support in the roles of Czar and the dying Empress from whose once capable hands Catherine II has to take the reins of government. The English eye for details is less keen than that of Hollywood and the pomp and pageantry which abound lack the conviction which recent domestic historical films have attained. In spite of these defects the film is well worth seeing if one has not viewed it before...
...becoming lack of modesty that has always been such a prominent characteristic of American advertising, is still just that. And if anything it is getting more so. Time was when corset advertisements were the only public ventures into the realms of the great undressed, and although nasty little schoolboys used to gaze longingly upon them on long train trips and on warm evenings, the pictures were comparatively chaste...
...midnight every night this week is being unrolled on the Tremont Theatre screen one of those rough-hewn masterpieces which emerge every now and then from the U.S.S.R., possessing none of the polish but many of the sturdier virtues which most of our Hollywood hothouse products lack. Only the one show at 12 o'clock, is being given...
...mother [Anna Hall of New York City] was always a little troubled by my lack of beauty, and I knew it, as a child senses those things. She tried very hard to bring me [the eldest child] up so well that my manners would in some way compensate for my looks, but her efforts only made me keenly conscious of my shortcomings. . . . My father [Elliott Roosevelt, brother of Theodore Roosevelt], charming, good-looking, loved by all who came in contact with him. high or low, had a background and upbringing which were alien to her pattern. He had a physical...