Word: sheering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What surprised even the best-informed artists and connoisseurs, as they made their way past a great collection of full-scale water color and photographic reproductions which filled three floors, was the sheer bulk of artistic material retrieved from the depths of the human past. Yet the Museum's exhibition was only a fractional facsimile of the 3,500 items in the Frobenius Collection at the Institute for the Study of the Morphology of Civilization, Frankfurtam-Main, Germany...
...From It All", An Escapologist's Notebook is the pseudo-diary of a person who tried to get away from the fact of life. An escapologist, the author tells us, is "a person who by looks the facts of life in the back of the neck or by sheer force of the imagination conjures them out of existence or urns away from them". Bullfrog, a young English journalist, made his hold attempt to escape these facts of life, and because he failed, because he soon forgot exactly what it was that he was trying to get away from, he wrote...
...looks and acts dumb but in truth is far too smart for him and his girl friends, whom she converts by a great display of sheer innocence into her friends instead of his. Actor MacKenna (Merrily We Roll Along, Accent on Youth) has been playing erring dramatists so long he should be able to present the required blend of boyish and goatish behavior even though in the throes of somnambulism. Linda Watkins (June Moon) is equally adept at impersonating the girl whose shrewdness is masked by wide-open eyes and naive questions. Between them, they should manage to keep Penny...
...brief introduction to several other letters I'd like to send you on Italy. This is not the gay enthusiastic Italy of fifteen years ago. The sights are still here: certainly there are but few more artistic and beautiful small cities in the world than Florence; and for sheer majesty and spaciousness Rome is in a class by itself; for Naples there is always the bay, Vesuvius and donkey carts; and for the most thrilling and picturesque drive in the world there's the Amalfi Drive. For more of antiquity there's Pompei; and for two of the most gracious...
...best-seller by Dorothea Brande, from which it takes its title. That this almost impudently daring tour de force turns out to be wholly successful is due to shrewd manipulations by Producer Kenneth MacGowan and to a narrative by Screenwriters Curtis Kenyon. Jack Yellen and Harry Tugend which for sheer ingenuity is possibly the season's high...