Word: shatteringly
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...before the lens. Since they cannot speak, the players use magnificent gestures and grimaces to convey their emotions, and this very burlesque of over-acting is amusing to moderns. The "immortal Sarah" is a disappointment, for although the cinema may not be her medium, she has no right to shatter dreams by being a dumpy, lame, old woman. Anybody who takes the movies seriously will be fascinated by this page from the past...
Allen was a young rebel. He wanted to shatter conservative midwestern Jordanstown to bits, fit the pieces to a humaner pattern. So did his pal Dave. When Allen scraped together enough money to buy the local paper he proceeded to set the town on its ear. Subscriptions fell off but needy friends rallied to Allen's cause. Jordanstown's bosses dropped Allen a hint to mind his manners, but he went right ahead. Climax of his crusade was a parade of the underdogs, led by Dave and Allen, to the new meeting house built by painful comradely effort...
...Hollywood executive. Producer Wallis lives on a ranch in the San Fernando Valley, drives a Cadillac to work, plays a little golf on Sunday. He has been known to turn down his wife, Comedian Louise Fazenda. for pictures he did not think she suited. Spasmodic outbreaks of puckish humor shatter his calm executive mask. He has disrupted story conferences with imitations of Rudy Vallee and Joe E. Brown, can hold his own at banquets with professional gagsters. Tall, affable, dimpled, his personal charm is notable in a business whose executives are conspicuously lacking in that quality...
Strengtheners v. Modifiers. South Africa's clean-cut Charles Theodore te Water alone demanded pressing on with Sanctions against Italy, saying that to lift them "will shatter for generations all international confidence and all hope of realizing world peace...
...machine which hits a piece of metal with the whack of a bullet traveling 1,000 ft. per sec., H. C. Mann of Watertown (Mass.) Arsenal discovered that when a piece of metal is struck a very strong blow, its molecules release some of their potential energy, help shatter themselves. Mr. Mann's machine consists of a brace to hold the test metal and a flywheel with a bump on its rim. A motor works the fly wheel up to a rim speed of 680 m.p.h. at which point the bump hits the metal sample a single blow, breaks...