Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They are the most remarkable socks you can get. . . . These really are jolly good! British buyers should try out new things. I always do myself." John Dickinson & Co., makers of paper shirt fronts for waiters known as "Dickinson's Dickeys," were favored with a jest by Edward VIII: "Splendid! But will they wash...
...attaining their end. In addition, through the requirement of a years of graduate work, the University is opening the advantages of internship to its trainees. With such a program, I am confident, the Harvard graduates of future years will turn their efforts toward achievement in public life with splendid background and developed abilities...
...Slalom" must be a rare treat for the devotees of snow and ice, for besides being entirely in a sympathetic vein, it shows how the feats of splendid grace are performed by experts. For the rest of humanity this unique film is vicarious participation in the breathless and apparently effortless antics of winter athletes, without involving any of the chills and spills, but at the same time giving a most generous sample in comparison with the measly glimpses of the news reels...
...back in the Tower before a warm fire the Vagabond pores over the travels of that wily Spanish knight, Pero Tafur, who saw the corruption and all the false show of Byzantium eighteen years before it was taken. It was not the glittering, splendid luxury which dazzled the minds of the West...
...Zanuck inserted a similar character to add to Dr. Mudd's torments at Fort Jefferson: a lean & mean chief warden (John Carradine). A sharp-tongued, suspicious prison doctor was well played by 0. P. Heggie, who died two weeks after his role was finished. The picture is a splendid example of biographical melodrama which should appall its audiences, enrich its producers and remind Hollywood that U. S. history, no less than that of France, Mexico and Britain, contains rich veins of screen material which deserve to be mined by able writers. The Milky Way (Paramount). No. 2 comedian...