Word: rapidness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rapid reading of most of the play loads one almost to agree with Mr. Mansfield that the play comes pretty close to being "a dirty book" and "full of commonplace smut," but I take it that since the epoch-making decision of Judge Woolsey in New York, this makes little difference if "art" is proven. It certainly has not been proven in the case of this play...
...were many who noted that twelve hours later it had grown brighter again. In the intervening week it has apparently been fluctuating violently but regularly in brightness, about once in three days. It is not unusual for a Nova to do this, although the change is not always so rapid...
...Chicago last week gathered some 2,000 economists, sociologists, statisticians and political scientists to attend meetings of a dozen learned societies, tell each other and the nation how the New Deal looks from their study windows. In rapid-fire order the following theoreticians made the following points...
...Prussians came. They refused to be stopped. Against the rapid fire of their infantry, armed with breech-loading rifles, the terrible French bayonet charges were useless. Dashing cavalry attacks were equally futile. General von Moltke, sitting calmly at headquarters, could direct his troops by telegraph with the certainty that his orders would be completely fulfilled. All the French armies retreated steadily. Finally, when McMahon allowed himself and the Emperor to be cornered at Sedan the end of the war was inevitable...
...despite the fact that Censor Joseph Breen gave it Certificate of Approval No. 395, can be considered an advertisement for adultery as a matrimonial cureall. In this respect it follows Somerset Maugham's shallow novel, from which it was adapted. In other respects, except that it lacks the rapid-fire beginning in which the two lovers see the doorknob turn and wonder whether they have been discovered, The Painted Veil improves on its original...