Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Showing a surprising lack of cooperation and power, the league-leading Adams House football team barely managed to hold the team from Dunster House to a 0-0 tie, yesterday afternoon. The Gold-Coasters still retained a lead of three points, since the second-place Winthrop House team was idle. In the other game of the day, Kirkland House defeated Leverett House, 7-0, thereby moving into third place, already occupied by three other teams...
When a pet black bear near Albion. N. Y. killed a child last year (TIME, Oct. 24, 1932), a New York law, effective last month, made lack of "due care" in protecting the public from animals a misdemeanor. In 1923 Connecticut outlawed the use of wild animals for soliciting alms or contributions. A 1927 amendment forbade roadside animal exhibits for commercial purposes...
...South American airmail route. Far from being an aviation "epic," it is really a study of an airmail port in operation at a crisis. The hero of the picture is not Jules Fabian (Clark Gable), whose plane is blown to sea by a cyclone, forced down by lack of fuel, but Riviere (John Barrymore), the general manager of the air lines, who has to order Mme Fabian (Helen Hayes) to leave his office, rebuke his subordinate Robineau for being too familiar with pilots, send the European mail out into a storm, accuse his bravest pilot of cowardice to steel...
...husband, the cleverest acting in the picture. Binnie Barnes as Catherine Howard, Merle Oberon as Anne Boleyn and Wendy Barrie as Jane Seymour, despite their appalling names, are lovely looking. Good shot: Henry, between wives and deeply bored, spitting out a mouthful of dinner before rebuking his court for lack of refinement...
Handled by a poet less gifted with quiet discernment and a pithy irony which makes extended comment unnecessary, Talifer would be quite empty of significance. But Robinson, though his lines now lack poetic fire, retains a sure and practised technique, a shrewd discernment that radiates light if not heat...