Word: shallow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Equally uncomfortable, last week, were pet goldfish. Equally solicitous was the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. It advised fish fanciers that on hot days goldfish should be taken from their bowls, put into shallow pans of fresh water...
...animal up, thought it had drowned. Hours later, a fisherman inbound off Sea Gate, some seven miles from the bull's dive, beheld a horned creature swimming out to sea with the tide. The fisherman approached, threw an anchor rope, caught and towed the beast, still belligerent, to shallow water at Coney Island. To get the animal into an S. P. C. A. ambulance required two ropes, 18 policemen...
...inestimable advantage over the character in Katharine Brush's best seller: he is flesh & blood; and so, with more decorative effect, is Claudette Colbert as the heroine. Their easy, natural playing brings the brittle characters to life, gets the most out of the glib, skillful, and rather shallow little story about a newsman who quarrelled with his wife because she made him feel inferior and made up with her when he found he could stand on his own legs. Silliest shot: Claudette Colbert going blind after drinking some liquor intended for sportswriter consumption. Claudette Colbert (nee Chauchoin) was born...
...perhaps too much caution the flery reform policy of Roosevelt, his friend and predecessor. Nevertheless, the qualities that he lacked as a leader were more than amply balanced by his devotion to public welfare outside of personal reward and his firm interpretation of the National Constitution. Rhetoric beats a shallow drum before the figure of a man whose effort was not stinted with egoism, whose diseeraing eyes were not slow to kindle with humanity. As a man who played many integral parts against the shifting background of national affairs his death destroys a vital link between past and present...
Once Mrs. Dugan was a cabaret entertainer in Juneau, Alaska. In 1927 she was a housekeeper for an aged rancher at Tucson, Ariz. Apparently hoping to get his property, she murdered him, buried his body in a shallow grave, fled in his automobile. She was accused of murder only after she had spent a year in a New York prison for stealing...