Word: pungents
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...Rome, finally, it was Signer Benito Mussolini who caused his Fascist Grand Council to adopt last week a pungent manifesto exhorting the Great Powers to "renounce Reparations and cancel War Debts...
Died. Edward J. Moriarity, 66, old-time Yale barkeep; of heart disease aggravated by corpulence; in New Haven. In "Tuttle's," his pungent stube behind a cracker & cheese store, Yale undergraduates for over 40 years quaffed beer, sang songs, learned lore. There was written, and there first sung by Ed Moriarity, "There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding...
...gracious dialog and partly from the fact that the cast is about the best that Hollywood could assemble for this type of production. Reginald Owen is a sporting Earl, absurdly preoccupied with the nonsensical problems of barnyard and hunting field. Frederick Kerr is a superannuated British admiral, grunting pungent insults at the members of his family. Roland Young is a self-satisfied naval officer who has a fussy curiosity about the domestic affairs of his friends. It is characters like these-minor personages, sketched with a caricaturist's regard for mannerism and eccentricity-that really make Lonsdale...
...amazement they worked. An enormous practice sprang up at Mesmer's Vienna home. Soon, however, he discovered that the magnet was unnecessary, that he could cure his patients by merely touching them. This pawer he called animal magnetism. Mesmer's successes infuriated the Viennese medicos. They looked for some pungent failure, found one in the case of a blind girl, Maria Theresia Paradies, who was, said rumor, Mesmer's mistress...
...story begins a little slowly in the shabby dwelling of Jess Oakroyd, a carpenter and joiner out of a job; but it doesn't take long to start Jess on the highway in search of adventure and employment. This deliciously slow provincial Englishman, with his aromatic pipe and pungent quips, wanders into a troup of third-rate travelling players and becomes their stage carpenter and jack-of-all-trades. But besides propping up scenery for the troupe, he sustains the whole show for the Boston audience. The troupe has been further augmented by Young Love, male and female. And when...