Word: matter-of-fact
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Tarzan, the Ape Man (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) begins in matter-of-fact fashion when a young English girl named Jane Parker (Maureen O'Sullivan) arrives at the cozy hut of her father, an African trader. She is a pleasant character and one not easily startled. Her most definite characteristic is a warm enthusiasm for maternity which makes her approve of 1) an African baby in a bag, 2) a hippopotababy waddling after its mother, 3) a small shaggy ape which seems to be an orphan. When she goes with her father's expedition to find the valley where the long...
...National Aircraft Show which closed in Detroit last week, that did not mean the show was not a good one. Rather it meant that the developments shown there, while important to the industry, were no longer spectacular to the layman, who has come to regard aviation as a matter-of-fact. The building of a 30-passenger plane is no longer front-page news...
Nonetheless, so much agitation over international publicity, and such matter-of-fact consideration of a transatlantic telephone call, were significant. Pope Pius XI is enlisting all things modern to the advancement of his Church throughout the earth. Last week he ordered three helicopters for his messenger service...
...late nineteenth century, greatly stressed by headmasters in their talks to parents and alumni, and largely a joke among those who are presumed to practice and revere it. Recently a good many institutions have seen fit to abandon the scheme, confessing that modern youth is too matter-of-fact, if not too cynical, to be persuaded by the chivalrous concepts of Alfred Tennyson...
...Much?if you are of the mind. Little ?if life represents to you only the matter-of-fact...