Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whatever other advantages it may possess, the new type of detective picture is at least likely to help eradicate from the U. S. cinema that traditional scene in which the comedy character begins to hiccup and mispronounce while gulping at his second cocktail. In Star of Midnight, Clay Dalzell (William Powell) starts his day, not with orange juice but with a highball while shaving. He also requires four Martinis, ten stingers, one beer and an unspecified quantity of brandy neat. Through all this drinking he not only maintains perfect sobriety and finds himself encouraged to solve the problem...
...people can have known so much about dogs as Dr. Johnson, who was no expert, and who certainly did not learn what he knew from wiping his greasy fingers, after dinner, on the ready back of a collie. It is important, observed Dr. Johnson, that the bull-dog possess tenuity; the hind-legs must be relatively thin. Everybody attributes tenacity, as a moral quality, to the breed, and some Englishmen seem quite content for John Bull, who takes his name and characteristics from it, to be regarded as the national archetype. The other breeds, most of which are represented...
Certainly, pressure placed on the World Court, a League of Nations, and arbitration which are about the only weapons that we possess today should accomplish more. For in this field one stands a chance of accomplishing something constructive. If the 150,000 students who staged a peace strike in the country yesterday had flooded their Congressmen with telegrams when the World Court was under discussion, they would have helped to establish the prestige of an organization which is sincerely desirous of achieving peace. But apparently their next action in the field will be a year from today when they will...
...when the lease expired, no Baker Heir had documents to prove the saga. Mr. & Mrs. Renick of Seattle, by claiming to possess the documents, have lived off one Baker Heir after another. A Glenview, Ill. couple supported the Renicks for ten months before they became suspicious, snooped vainly for the documents, hunted up other victims, finally had the Renicks haled into court on a charge of using the mails to defraud...
...Wadsworth, or now the art of the primitive Negroes or the Seljuka." That kind of criticism is indeed indefensible; one hopes, however, that Mr. Wickham, in his ardor to defend classicism against the enemy, is not leaning over backwards, for all the modernist idols--except the obvious frauds--possess a perfection of their own, which the best modernist critics, at any rate, are gravely anxious to explain and to applaud. So one must really be cautious in his demolition; Picasso, for example, would not be Picasso if he were not privy to certain secrets unknown by Giotto. The attention paid...