Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kont, Jeremiah Smith Equlty, Coke, Brandeis, Edward Warron, Marshal Law, Casmer Equlty, and Scott, Powell Clubs will compete in the quarter finals next spring. The semi-finals will be hold in the fall...
...Disenchanted," was hailed as a semi-biographical novel of F. Seott Fitzgerald even before its publication. But Budd Sebuthorg, prefaces this book with a short quotation from Henry James: "Let us have here as little as possible about its 'being' Mr. This or Mr. That. If it adjusts itself with the least truth to its now life it can't possibly be either...
...similarities. Both books use the same framework, the setting of a task to win the hand of a lovely princess. Both have all the paraphernalia of the fairy story: witches, wizzards, fabulous jewels. Both make liberal use of poetic devices such as alliteration, and have passages of metrical or semi-metrical prose. Both are humorous...
...insistence on the sanctity of this semi-mystical relationship goes beyond mere words. When a department-store manager suggested that crowds which had come to see Hoppy were duty-bound to buy something in return, the people's friend promptly punched him in the nose. A fortnight ago in Manhattan, Boyd attended an evening performance of the new Ethel Merman musical, Call Me Madam. Crowds in the lobby immediately crushed around him, but when the manager tried to extricate him he roared: "Hey-you! Let go my sleeve. These are my friends, my friend, and I'll come...
American Guerrilla in the Philippines (20th Century-Fox) muffs a promising chance to do justice to an authentic saga of World War II. The movie was filmed in the Philippines, so that even a fictional treatment might have preserved a semi-documentary tang. Instead, taken either as fiction or reportage, the picture turns out to be as counterfeit and hackneyed as a comic-book adventure yarn, and not nearly so well paced...