Word: spelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Around this as a basis, Director John M. Stahl has built an intensely absorbing story the story of the love of Bobby Merrick for Mrs. Hudson. Sad but not depresing, emotional but not overdone, the story holds the audience spell bound with an artistry rare in these days of colossal film "epics...
...thing, newspapermen as a class don't get leaves of absence. They either get fired or they take sick and die. For another thing, she has picked the wrong the kind of people to go to Harvard reporters, editorial writers, special writers. Obviously the people who could use a spell at Harvard are the publishers of papers, not the employees. Go into any newspaper office and you'll find it teeming with Harvard men, most of whom need not another term at Cambridge, but a dollar and a half to get their shirts back from the laundry. These employees...
...wouldn't put a fellow who wanted to learn to play the violin with a symphony orchestra," he said. "He'd just spell the concert and probably wouldn't get much out of it himself...
...central pair have to get the maid's book of applied witchcraft to restore things to normalcy. They run into special trouble obtaining a yellow-bellied spider and in learning the Babylonian word for cockatoo. They ultimately succeed but with disastrous results for another couple present when the spell is cast...
...successful. Not to mention a free-for-all including her, her wife, and the Irish maid, she is forced to kneel on the floor with the man lying on top of her, back to back and beat on the floor with a mallet. This is to cast the spell. The man weighs at least 165. He is Bernard Lee, and is quite satisfactory both as man and wife. A most meticulous and objective worker as a biochemist, he returns to his apparatus after the great change, pours in the wrong stuff, and says, "Ooh look, it's turning green...