Word: mushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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City Lights is not silent in the strictest sense. Synchronized sound effects and music are used beginning with the very first sequence, where the talkies are burlesqued by horn sounds that make the actors seem to be talking with their mouths full of mush. Also there is an episode where Mr. Chaplin swallows a whistle. Each time he coughs he whistles and he cannot stop coughing. Taxis hurry up and stop, dogs overwhelm him. Hollywood also grew hysterical during a prizefight in which Charlie survives two rounds by dodging so briskly that the referee is always between...
...other hand those men who are more receptive and yet less under the influence of the ideas of others are capable of imagining many possible careers for themselves. The opportunities which seem open for them are so wide that they mush arbitrarily narrow their efforts and interests. Aid and advice on such orientation are offered by the University Consultant on careers, and many men who do not quite know their own minds can find here certain helpful suggestions as to the path they should follow...
Besides the performance of Miss Shearer the other gratifying aspect of the movie is the fact that Robert Montgomery has finally arrived to the point where he has really clever lines to say and not the trite mush that he has had to mutter in the last several movies that he has appeared in. It is true that he gets off one, "Loosen up, little girl" or "Relax. baby, relax" but that can be excused on the grounds that he has been so accustomed to saying those things in the past that he had to utter just...
Next he asked for twelve volunteers in a Mississippi prison, who would undergo a test. The test was alluring. He was going to put them in a house apart and feed them for six months on biscuits, mush. rice, syrup, gravy, sugar, sweet potatoes. The prisoners were enthusiastic until, six months later, they developed pellagra. They were cured with milk and meat, then pardoned...
Their danger lies in their rotting concrete foundations. The concrete penetrates water-logged ground, but was not made impervious to water. Consequently water, especially where it carries chemicals like sulphates in solution, has reacted with the concrete to make a cement mush. The security of the buildings depend on the tenacity of the soil keeping the columns of soft concrete from spreading...