Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. All murders be sensational, but most of them are too obvious to be interesting. Mr. Pearson demonstrates that there are murders which are great in themselves, not because they involve the fact that someone has been killed, but because they involve great situations. Miss Lizzie Borden in her house at Fall River makes an unforgettable picture; and it was not the crime on the Fuller but the situation aboard of her next morning which is absorbing. The difficulty about ordinary newspaper crime is that it is so pitifully undramatic. Mr. Pearson shows that at long intervals murder can rise...
What the same index will show for the present month is, of course, conjectural at present. Farm products will be higher, of course. Yet it is obvious that the advance in grain prices is not due to "gold inflation" but to crop failures. The prophets of American inflation may ultimately be right, but so far the facts give little comfort to their theories...
...strung about with a few chunks of cinematic laughter-bait, dangled rakishly by Director Beaumont inside the standard triangle frame. Corporeal flesh the producers could and did obtain, in the not unconvincing shape of fat Willard Louis, hitherto unknown. But of spiritual tegument the scenario had none. For obvious reasons, Tanis Judique, middle aged and harmless in the novel, was sent to the boudoir and brought out a sleek, home-wrecking creature (Carmel Myers). Mary Alden, the Babbitt wife, has played frumpy parts until they are second nature...
...Hotchkiss master, had of late shared with Dr. Buehler in the school's administration. He is known to the boys as "a hard marker, strict in class and at table, kind at heart and a knock-out German prof." They call him "The Bull," for no more obvious reason than that which has for years inspired Hill School men to call Alfred G. Rolfe, long the counsellor of Hill headmasters, "The Walrus...
...Candide. In fact, the foreword has Candide objecting strenuously to his reincarnation as the son of a pork-packer, Cunegonde worrying about what's going to happen, and Pangloss not quite happy at being made a bootlegger. But this blithe young gravedigger has exhumed their altered corpses with such obvious relish that one has not the heart to quibble with what...