Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Break of Hearts (RKO) is the story of the fascinating orchestra leader, adored by women generally, and his beautiful wife, adored by the orchestra leader's playboy crony in particular, and the difficulties which they cause each other before achieving final reconciliation. When the wife leaves the orchestra leader, she runs into such troubles as alcoholism, fainting spells and fits of giggles to conceal her breaking heart. When she refuses to take him back, he experiences the same symptoms, with overtones of rudeness, egomania and, finally, prostration. The only thing that makes these developments, usually reserved for pictures aimed...
...thousands of others, he is faced with a free choice of career in which he hopes not only to earn his living, but attain so-called happiness. It is natural at such a time for him to think over the past and to try to figure out what his particular talents are, and in what way he has anything more to contribute than the thousands of others graduating not only from his college, but from the many other colleges both here and abroad. It is almost inevitable that one of the things he will consider as a primary asset...
Whether the punishment of the officers of the Lampoon and the padlocking of their building in this particular instance was justifiable, depends upon the spirit in which the parody issue was written. If it had as its purpose the satirizing of what was considered an extravagant, puerile magazine, its outdoing of Esquire should not be considered smut. But if the issue was put out for the purpose of filling the coffers of the Lampoon, the administration would not deserve condemnation...
...seldom that foreign guests say such things but never do they return with the money. But the particular foreigner returned at 3 o'clock on the afternoon of December 7 with a bundle of bank notes...
...Columbia Broadcasting System has given particular consideration to recent trends in two general types of commercial program: those which are de-signed for children, and those involving unpleasant discussions of bodily functions, bodily symptoms, or other matters which similarly infringe on good taste. In addition . . . careful study has been given to the amount of time that should be used by sponsors for their advertising messages...