Word: somehows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eaten the hearts, livers and testicles of ferocious beasts and valorous enemies. Believers in sympathetic magic, they sought thus to acquire strength and bravery. Scientific minds saw no sense to this until about 75 years ago Charles Edouard Brown-Séquard (1817-94) concluded that such a diet somehow made men of weaklings. He sought the reason and found a testicular secretion which in infinitesimal amounts did what the whole gland could do. That potent quintessence came to be called a hormone. Other glands in the body were soon found to produce secretions of similar potency. Thus born...
...short features, worthless except for the newsreel, round out the program, and detract from the impression created by the feature. For the first time in many moons it was this reviewer's pleasure to hear an audience rise and cry out against one of those inane comedies that seem somehow always to amuse the girl behind...
...Chambre is no mean fencer but has not the habit of a duelist. However, it seemed to him last week that this challenge was somehow mixed up with the innocence of the entire Daladier Cabinet, the honor of French politics and maybe with the Stavisky Case. It might settle the whole issue of "manifestants" and "assassins" as against "rioters" and "statesmen." He read the card: "Jacques Renouvin, Avocat." Then he sent out his seconds...
...especially good job. Chet Litman and Bob Haley were most effective in nabbing the rather large number of ball carriers that got by the front line. Offensively, Litman showed that he has not yet lived up to the coaches' expectations. He is fast, has a lot of drive, but somehow is not yet a steady bet for a gain. Don Jackson, at fullback, didn't have very much chance to display his talents on the offensive...
...place to which men are condemned who inhabit "the wrong world"-preachers who should have been lawyers, businessmen who should have been artists. Principal figure is a mediocre painter who escaped from "the wrong world" by becoming a pump-manufacturer ("a spring-clean unimpeachable pump-builder"), then somehow relapsed. Saved from suicide and other tempting methods of flight by the mysterious figure of Amaranth, a symbolic embodiment of conscience, the erstwhile painter watches fate overtake the other inhabitants, eventually wins his release from the accursed country. Total effect of Amaranth is typically Robinsonian: a shadow masque seen through a glass...