Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Audiences like Deanna Durbin for her negative virtues almost as much as for her positive good points. Negatively, she pleases by her lack of the arch, smarty, claphands affectations which have blighted so many Hollywood juveniles in the bud. Positively, she has a clear, appealing soprano, a plump and pleasant face, a buxom 14-year-old physique. In 100 Men & a Girl, as the daughter of an impoverished trombonist (Adolphe Menjou) who is trying vainly to get a job in Stokowski's orchestra, Miss Durbin finds her way without pathetic bumbles through some pretty sentimental sequences. She collects...
Though all military observers realized that North China was the real theatre of war, foreign correspondents at Shanghai, seeing a major modern battle exploding directly in front of their typewriters, showed an understandable lack of perspective, wrote about little but the great battle of Shanghai...
...Cochran Odlum, wife of investment trust Tycoon Floyd B. Odlum, only woman entered. She reached Cleveland in third place, won $3,000 plus $2,500 offered to the first woman to finish. The $5,000 second prize went to Earl Ortman of Los Angeles, who nearly lost consciousness for lack of oxygen when he mounted to 22,000 ft. over Kansas to avoid a storm. Winner was wealthy Sportsman Frank William Fuller of San Francisco, who-with the possible exception of Mrs. Odlum-had less need of money prizes than any other flyer entered...
...description of the various scholarships has been attempted for a number of reasons, not least of which being lack of space caused by the presence of the names of so many winners...
...m.p.h. Co-pilot of the third Italian ship, only half-hour behind, was none other than Lieutenant Bruno Mussolini, thickset second son of Il Duce. On his account, the crowds at Le Bourget had all been carefully frisked by police before admission. With scrupulous politeness and notable lack of enthusiasm, they applauded as each plane landed. That night the Paris press gave Pierre Cot his comeuppance, clamored for his resignation...