Word: ladened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Below The Sea (Columbia). Beginning with a somewhat incredible premise, this picture shows a U. S. destroyer sinking a German submarine laden with $3,000,000 in gold in the South Seas during the War. Captain Schlemmer (Fredrik Vogeding) escapes with one shipmate, kills him on a desert island. Years later he ships with a lady oceanographer (Fay Wray) on her yacht bound for the site of the sunken treasure. Also along is a diver (Ralph Bellamy), who is at first more interested in his craft than in Miss Wray. The iniquitous Teuton, best actor in the cast, soon shows...
...late Enoch Arnold Bennett, with his appetite for facts-of-modern-life, would have enjoyed this book. Nurse Adriane is a love story, but its setting, a big London hospital, is what will hold any Bennett-like reader. Against this fact-laden background almost any story would do. Authoress James writes her straightforward narrative in straightforward London (as opposed to Oxford) English; though her cases are emotional she deals with them like a competent surgeon-cutting neatly to the essential, never faltering into sloppiness...
Suddenly he turns a corner, steps into the full of the strong wind coming out of the southward dusk, laden with the odors of vegetative must. A crabbed, sea-green foam of new leaves leaps about him, bursting through the brown screen of the late-winter town; the hedges burgeon strangely bright and noticeable about him, bristling with immaculate greenness. Through the ploughing wind he walks, feeling like a dog whose hair is blown back straight over his eyes, caressed and washed by the rapid air. Only now, through the deep blue dusk, a press of desire comes upon...
...knowledge into dullards and lazybones. The tutor is usually a shrewd, undersized person who was at one time the "whiz" or "shark" of his college class. There is usually a legend that he has been offered enormous sums to take a college professorship. He works in a grimy, smoke-laden office, his shirt-sleeves rolled up, is busiest when examination time approaches. His stock-in-trade is a file of old examination papers, a collection of mimeographed texts, outlines, shortcuts. That these are extracted copiously without by-your-leave from authorized textbooks, should long have been obvious to everybody...
Less than a week ago Mr. Robart of the Cambridge School Board denounced the "meddlers" whom he found were laden with advice always, but with donations rarely. His views, no doubt, coincided with those of a goodly number of citizens in university towns who have come to the conclusion that many professors can write and discourse most indefinitely on problems without offering very concrete solutions or material...