Word: mires
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hays Production Code, according to which "the drug traffic should not be presented in any form," Basil Rathbone exhibits proper disdain. But before he asks Watson (Nigel Bruce) for his needle, he solves in satisfactory style Conan Doyle's gloom-ridden mystery of murder on the Grimpen Mire...
Publisher Bernarr Macfadden, who gained fame and fortune publishing such magazines as True Story, Physical Culture, Liberty, last week produced something new: a religious monthly, Your Faith. He urged readers: "Rise out of the mire and muck of that which is base and contemptible. Climb on the bandwagon loaded with kindliness and friendliness. The brotherhood of man then smiles at you from earnest, honest eyes...
...undoubtedly the most feared of his era, and he wrote publicly and anonymously, over-seriously and over-humorously, at length and in brief, even in baby talk--whichever best suited his mood. And almost single-handed, he pulled English literature and society a step upward out of its complacent mire...
...Bitter Economist Michel Alphendery, a communist sympathizer, who says of his job: "We're riders of the storm: all of us together with him in this phantom bank, built on misery, shining out of mire, solid in an earthquake, soundproof in thunder, a living lightning conductor: an accident in capitalism...
Unable to cope with the superior speed and passing attack of their England fees, the Crimson rugby team was submerged Saturday afternoon 50-0 in the mire of Soldiers Field before a scant 500 rain-defying fans...