Word: nervelessness
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...Pancho" Sarabia likes good, quiet clothes and Scotch whiskey, speaks good English, displays the nerveless sang-froid of a proper flier. Born 39 years ago in the little town of Lerdo, he attended Mexican schools, crossed the U. S. border to get a degree at New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, went to an automobile school in Kansas City, worked at the Buick plant in Michigan. In 1926 he took a $3 ride with a barnstormer. Next day Pancho started flying lessons and he has never been out of flying for more than three months since...
Murder in the Cathedral (by T. S. Eliot; produced by Gilbert Miller & Ashley Dukes). Poetic drama by modern writers has been chiefly the plaything of the Little Theatres or the largess of high-minded or highfalutin producers. With a contemporary background poetic drama seems nerveless, artificial, grandiose. But with a historical background it can still, in the right hands, achieve a noble movement...
...last week's climactic moment Dr. Hartman, a big, handsome scholar, was confronted by 3,000 dentists and scouts for dental supply houses. Them he vexed by what they considered a needless description of a tooth's construction: hard, nerveless enamel over dentine over pulp. The pulp contains the tooth's nerve. The dentine contains a fatty substance called lipoid which Dr. Hartman believes transmits pain to the nerve. By temporarily disconnecting the lipoid from the nerve he believes that he interrupts transmission of pain during drilling in the dentine. Following this theory, he devised a solution...
...Mary Burns, Fugitive" is in the ancient tradition of gangster films, but gangster films have gone a long, long way since "Scarface". Sylvia Sydney mopes all over the place--which she does very well--and gives us a strongly moving Mary Burns. Allen Baxter is an impressively cold, nerveless killer, albeit slightly too good-looking...
Hymn No. 467 was written by that great U. S. statesman, John Hay. It begins: Not in dumb resignation we lift our hands on high; Not like the nerveless fatalist content to trust and die: Our faith springs like the eagle, which soars to meet the sun, And cries exulting unto thee, "O Lord, thy will be done...