Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...record Dr. Richard's extraordinary medical achievement; that is widely recognized. No testimonial of his personal attraction need be compiled; the admiration of his friends is attest, And the sense of loss occasioned by Dr. Richards' departure from Harvard fields will not be peculiar to Harvard...
Dourine is a genital disease peculiar only to horses. It swells their groins and eventually paralyzes their hind quarters. The cause of the disease is a trypanosome, brother of the trypanosome which causes human sleeping sickness and distant relative of Treponema pallidum which causes syphilis. Dourine is highly contagious and spreads rapidly among unstalled horses. Arizona fears the spread of the disease among her domesticated herds...
...hired eight actors from the original cast, photographed the play as directly as possible. Inevitable comparison between the play and the cinema reflects no discredit on the latter. It loses a little by necessary abridgments in dialog and by the limitations of the camera when confronted by the peculiar problems of the mise-en-scene, but these are trivial defects. In the large, the cinema achieves the same effect as the play: a neat melodrama given an illusion of depth by the perspectives of its setting...
...Magnificent Lie (Paramount) is a tediously sentimental picture which for six reels endeavors to strain pathos out of a situation too peculiar to be sad in the first place. The situation is that of a soldier who, 13 years after the War, is still romantically devoted to a French actress named Duchene, because she once patted his head when he was in a hospital. When Duchene visits the U. S., he goes to see her act and to give her a bunch of camelias. In the middle of her play he goes blind. Practical jokesters later persuade a cabaret girl...
Strachey's amused detachment never falters, but he can rarely resist making a point, especially against the late great Victorian Age. In this summation his virtues and defects all appear: "A most peculiar age [the Victorian]; an age of barbarism and prudery, of nobility and cheapness, of satisfaction and desperation; an age in which everything was discovered and nothing known; an age in which all the outlines were tremendous and all the details sordid; when gas-jets struggled feebly through the circumambient fog, when the hour of dinner might be at any moment between two and six, when...