Word: resistible
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrested in various postures by the strains of Orpheus' music. A very young girl in her rapture drops a flower. More mature is a girl who lifts her hands in surprise, turns her head to hear whence the music comes. A third girl turns haughtily as if to resist the spell. Most mature is the woman who was arranging her hair when Orpheus began to play. She suggests a worldly, sated figure to whom spiritual beauty has suddenly been revealed. A youth lifts his hand as if he were trying to catch the music. A man, holding a bird...
...Like most "Yankee publications" you can't resist the temptation to have your dirty, untruthful dig at Southerners, but this time you are not content to censure and abuse the living, you must take a dirty crack at the dead. The sentences to which I refer [TIME, Oct. 1] read in this manner: ''As unique as its cooking is the South's propensity for sending strange characters as its ambassadors to the U. S. Senate. Because of the political degeneracy of the one-party system, the incompetence of the Deep South's voters...
...child (Shirley Temple) and takes her with him to Paris, where they meet Miss Lombard. The combined efforts of Miss Lombard and the child finally succeed in persuading Jerry to give up his vagabonding and settle down to a solid working position. When financial matters press, Jerry cannot resist the temptation to earn some easy money, but everything comes out all right. The winning charm of Mistress Temple should not be missed...
...Manhattan theatre Louis Moni could not resist the temptation to pinch a shapely leg beside him. For molesting a policewoman, the owner of the leg arrested and jailed Louis Moni...
...meteors recorded that Dr. Poulter last week estimated some 1,000,000,000 must fall into the whole of Earth's atmosphere every 24 hours. Previous astronomical estimates put the probable number at about 20,000,000. Of these at least one a day is big enough to resist disintegration and reach Earth as a meteorite...