Word: peculiare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other hand this latest attempt will doubtless be even more popular because of the delightful humor that has been skillfully interwoven with the story. Fredric March, as Sam Wye, expert detective, is put on the trail of Joan Bennett, murderess, because of his peculiar fascination for beautiful women. Constantly harassed by Ann Sothern who, as "Dr. Livingston," easily walks away with the acting honors, and Ralph Bellamy, as an incredibly stupid detective, he traces her half way around the world and, of course, falls madly in love with her once she is caught. A rather unconvincing happy ending...
...PECULIAR TREASURE-Edna Ferber -Doubleday, Doran...
...light of such conscious success, her autobiography last week came as a surprise. Somewhere along the way, she confesses worriedly, "I lost my bearings and missed the way." In A Peculiar Treasure she aims to discover where...
What really happened around Los Angeles last week was neither a sign of the wrath of God nor a wholesale cremation. A feature of the Southern California climate rarely mentioned by that city's energetic Chamber of Commerce is the peculiar haze visible on most autumn days. The haze is caused by smoke from fires in the dry. scrubby brush that grows as much as eight feet high over the sandy hills behind the city. Brush fires, unlike real forest fires, are easily extinguished and rarely do much more than annoy the mountain rabbits and keep CCC boys...
...scientists examined him, began to treat him with male hormone substance. To their astonishment, "within three weeks there appeared, along with the bronzing of the face, a tanning of the body save where it had been protected. . . . The patient had not worn the bathing suit, whose peculiar pattern the tan fitted, or any other bathing suit for five months. Neither had he sunned himself or used a sunlamp. . . ." When hormone treatments were stopped the tan faded away...