Word: spoiled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wiener Sängerknaben 's U. S. tour (TIME, Nov. 14). There were 30-odd concerts still to come. Adolescent Wilhelm Herp had thus become a problem. Sending him home alone to Vienna would not do. He must sing no more, not only because he would spoil the choral effect but because he might hurt his changing voice...
...many parents name their sons "Mary" is of course that by this means they place him under the spiritual protection of the Virgin. From Bremerhaven sailed Professor Albert Einstein & wife, bound for California's Institute of Technology. Said he, leaving Berlin: "That insignificant, irritable visa incident will not spoil the pleasure of the voyage. . . . It's all forgotten. The trouble with hearings of that kind is that you don't realize until some time has passed just where the inquisitor is trying to get under your skin. I suggest in the future Consuls put pins in their...
...important,* but whenever folks begin plowing around in my interior, the situation becomes important as far as I am concerned. Dr. [George Washington] Crile says he has been doing operations like mine for years and has never had a fatality. Of course, I do not want to spoil such a good record and am particularly pleased...
...semi-respectable, unexciting, the old sure-fire melodrama. Of the hot Pacific island where the rain monotonously rains and the characters get crescendo jitters, Milestone gets no illusion. The characters are not damp to the skin. Their clothes do not stick clammily to their flanks. The food does not spoil. Green mold does not sprout on everything. The heat is not heat at all. Faces are unsweated. Appetites are healthv. The weather does not. as in the play, exhaust the characters of energy, ravel out their nerves. Sadie Thompson (Joan Crawford) is no longer a harlot. She is a dull...
...Evelyn, graduated from Oxford, gets betrothed to Lady Middleton's marmoreal daughter Sarah, but when Easter and Basil see the trim life to which he is doomed they clear for home. Puppetstown has become a moldering tomb, Aunt Dicksie a crotchety recluse. She hates to have the children spoil her frigid peace, but warms to them and to life in the end. Puppetstown resounds again with the laughing speech learned from immemorial tradition and the local Blarney Stone. In a style extraordinarily luminous and concise Author Stuart's novel treats of highly-pitched human relations, no less real...