Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Holy Grail forms the basis for this fossilated farce. Richard Dix, as a brawny, broken-nosed, commercial traveler, twines love and business, achieving girl and commission. It gags and gurgles about the young salesman and his sweetie who admires him for being both opulent and deceitful. Ethics are somewhat mixed, the principals in an excellent poker sequence shifting cards until Dix acquires four of a kind, raking in thereby $4,000. Director Malcolm St. Clair, smart maker of the recent Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, was more interested in scenery than story...
Thanks for the Buggy Ride. This is one more somewhat rickety vehicle for the comic daintiness of Cinemactress Laura La Plante. It is an antiquated wagon, moving along upon wheels of device so often employed that they squeak loudly: thus, at a picnic, pigs gobble the sandwiches; when the picnickers, a young songwriter and a dancing instructress, seek nearby shelter they are embarrassingly mistaken for a married couple, which, later on, they become. Thanks for the Buggy Ride seems to be unconscious of its triteness. It has a careless, youthful, bumptious gaiety, which gives it the quality of a nutting...
...front page and breakover. The American made it the day's feature. The tabloids, preparing to print pictures of a meal sack labeled "This is what the corpse of Mlle. Roseray looked like when it was dredged out of the puddle"; were able instead to slap somewhat naked pictures of her prominently on their covers...
...account of the longer and harder schedule with which the lacrosse team is confronted, informal practice will begin Monday, somewhat earlier than usual, Captain J. H. Lane '28 will be in charge until the arrival of Coach Talbot Hunter on March...
...answers were various and somewhat unsatisfactory. J. Campbell White, General Secretary of the League, pointed out that church members had reached a point in working for foreign missions beyond which they should not go until they had done more efficient missionary work in their own communities. Said an Episcopal official: "What's the matter? Spiritual inertia and laziness." Missionary C. H. Fenn, home on furlough, spoke in metaphor, saying that the church was infected with "fatty degeneration of the heart, pernicious anemia, cerebrospinal meningitis, cancer, and neuritis." Not the least cogent and discouraging explanation was supplied...