Word: modernly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...invents an invalid friend and another young man invents a dissolute brother, there are still pleasant stretches. Lady Bracknell, "a monster without being a myth," is still an amusing snob. Miss Prism is still a funny old maid. And Wilde is still the most brilliant epigrammatist in the modern theatre, though for sustained comic dialogue he cannot hold a candle to Shaw...
...back in the evolution of modern man, concluded the scientists, reporting their remarkable but so far inexplicable treatment in the Canadian Medical Association Journal last week, there may have been a direct relationship between ears and sex organs. Although the scientists cautiously refrained from stating that constitutional deafness is an endocrine disease, they did say that "sex hormone may still play a role in the physiology of hearing today...
...soldiers, read sense into his harsh animal cries. On Sundays he would lead the shuffling child, who was almost a head taller than he, past neighbors' eyes into the park. Both Louis Greenfield and his wife, Anna, stinted themselves, sent the boy to hospitals, neurologists, special schools. But modern science could teach him nothing, could not even relieve painful convulsions that attacked him every few weeks. At first Louis and Anna refused to believe the doctors' verdict that their Jerry would never grow beyond the mental age of two. Later they had to accept...
Although their desire to annoy the skinflint president of the St. Louis Midland Railroad is altruistic, Jesse and his brother Frank (Henry Fonda) rob his trains with ingratiating gusto. No mollycoddle, Jesse James excels modern cinema gangsters in horseback riding, marksmanship and chivalry. He treats his gun-moll (Nancy Kelly) with devotion, and is shot by a traitor while fondly regarding a hand-embroidered wall motto that says God Bless Our Home...
...spared no expense. When he learned that the courthouse in Liberty, Mo., real home of the James boys, had been torn down, he flew over the Ozarks looking for a village where an old courthouse was still standing. Spying one at Pineville, he built oldtime false fronts over its modern stores, covered its concrete streets with dirt, hired dozens of its citizens as extras...