Word: sparkly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Love Again (Walter Wanger) puts a favorite poser of slick-paper fiction, viz., whether there is a spark in that old campus romance yet, these ten years later. Its answer is a heart-warming yes, echoing around the shaded quiet of a i Vermont college town. Producer Walter ; Wanger has a theory of picture-making akin to Baseball's immortal Willie Keeler's formula for a good batting average ("Hit 'em where they ain't"). Hence this film, a reworking of the essentials of Allene Corliss' Summer Lightning (cloudbursts & all) aims soberly at the heart...
...inches? Why this flurry of self-preservation at such a cost? No, 'tis better to die there calmly--to be run over in one quick piece--with quiet dignity to undergo the roller and come out on the other side a mere blob of jelly but retaining still a spark of self respect...
Making its way around U. S. campuses like the spark in a sputtering fuse, the venereal disease crusade arrived last week at Harvard. In a cool, impersonal manner that contrasted with the boisterous brothel-photographing and madame-interviewing technique of University of Illinois' Daily Illini (TIME, Nov. 1), Harvard's oldest publication, the Harvard Advocate, presented an article on Sex by the Yard with the co-operation of the university's hygiene department. Salient facts...
...leave our age the quite considerable spark...
...take the last step, and the hardest one, you have to have a certain insanity born in you. Perhaps 'genius' is a better word. It's a certain inspirational spark...