Word: mutterances
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country has had the literary wind knocked out of her so badly as Russia. For years after the War nothing escaped her epileptically clenched teeth but the mutter of revolutionary debate. Lately she has disgorged a few novels, most of them drearily propagandist, which have been filtered into translation. Quiet Street, a novel about Russians?not Communists, not Mensheviki, not Whites?is perhaps a sign that she is regaining her literary faculties...
Hunter Siemel, the man who kills jaguars with a bayonet, has devised a new method for capturing the giant anaconda boa constrictor. These monsters live in swamp pools which the natives skim and will not talk about except to mutter, "sucuri," their name for the anaconda. In the cold, dry season, anacondas sometimes slip out of pools to bask in the sun. Hunter Siemel's plan is to get between his snake and the water, put it on the defensive. Other men will surround it on the land side. Each man will be equipped with a long pole with...
...husband and his courtship at Lafayette was swift and ardent. . . . "Beginning in the spring of 1928 this respondent began to stay out late at night and was often seen in the company of disreputable characters known as 'Republicans'; he came home in bad moods and would banefully mutter, 'Raskobite' at your complainant and her friends; he no longer cared for and fed the pet donkey that was their comfort during their married life but brought into their happy home an elephant to which he devoted his entire time and attention. . . . He threatened to break your complainant...
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...
With a flourish the Chambrun Galleries invited the New York art world last week to a show proudly titled "Les Trente, a representative showing of the work of 30 modern French painters." The modern French painters bore such disturbingly un-French names as Foujita, Friesz, Kvapil, Carlu, Mutter, Hecht, Van Dongen, but apart from the accident of birth the subtitle was justified. These artists have not only made France their physical and spiritual home, but their training, their technique, their outlook, is as Parisian as a bottle of Pernod. One other thing was noticeable: Les Trente were completely modern...