Word: sodden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thoughtful story, by Lieut. Commander Frank Wead (Ceiling Zero, China Clipper), conceives two sodden-nerved men, one a swaggering, hard-living and egotistic pilot (Clark Gable), the other his patient, understanding mechanic (Spencer Tracy). On the fear-tortured mind of the flyer's wife (Myrna Loy) their almost brutal fatalism rasps like a file. Credit for blending this grounded mental conflict with the melodrama of wings in the air, screaming struts and whining motors goes to Director Victor Fleming (Captains Courageous). Not the least of his accomplishments was to exact performances that verge on reality from pert, actressy Myrna...
...Pops began, when the red oars flashed and a big voice in a little body called "Stroke," when you, Vag, decided to call up the girl you met at the Radcliffe tea one snowy January, and when she was out four successive nights you felt empty and dull and sodden...
...been cold enough. Instead of remaining on the ground as snow and draining gradually, the winter precipitation had fallen as cold rain, millions of tons of it, to make a wet and gloomy hell of high water as the swollen torrent swept 900 mi. south-west through ten sodden States. Pennsylvania got off comparatively easy this year. The citizens of Johnstown, which can never forget 1889, got worried when the Conemaugh went to five feet above normal after a 72-hr, rain, but few Johnstownians took the precaution of moving to higher ground. Pittsburgh's "Golden Triangle," the downtown...
From his heredity and background it was natural that Maurice Utrillo should have a talent for painting, but more startling is the fact that Maurice Utrillo was a sodden, wild-eyed dipsomaniac at the age of 15. No school would keep...
Fumed Oak, "an unpleasant comedy" in which a lower-class family's sodden routine is disrupted when the husband rebels, abandons...