Word: strains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Against this background of decorative chaos, Shanghai Express is refreshingly vital. The story is simple and somewhat absurd. It is the tale of a cosmopolitan group thrown together on the long run from Peiping to Shanghai and of their evolution as individuals under the stress and strain of revolutionary China. To know the plot is not necessary for the appreciation of the picture, as the dramatic importance lies entirely in the development of the characters...
Under the strain of devising new taxes, Representative James William Collier of Mississippi, Ways & Means chairman, last month collapsed, is now recovering in a Washington hospital. Into his place as acting chairman stepped Representative...
...nothing else to do. After two summers of perfect prenuptial flying, Vial goes back to his Paris shop, apparently to stay. Helene Clement will see to that. Colette takes Vial's departure a little hard. "I don't sing Vial's praises in a lyric strain. I regret him. ... I shall have no reason to magnify him until I begin to regret him less. He will come down-when my memory shall have achieved its capricious work which often deprives a monster of his hump or his horns, effaces a mountain, respects a straw ... he will come...
...announcing the death of his colleague, Georgia's Congressman Crisp observed with some alarm: "It is my honest belief that he was a victim of the strain under which we have been trying to work these last several weeks. . . . Let us reflect and relax some and not kill ourselves...
...puts himself in a relaxed position and stares at some bright object above his head. The hypnotist, meanwhile, cajolingly suggests that he is sleepy. Bye & bye he falls asleep. In that sleep he will, like Trilby, do many of the things the hypnotist tells him to do. Sometimes the strain of a subject's attempts to obey the hypnotist are so psychically awesome, so physically real, as to upset the strongest observer. After he wakes a person may carry out hypnotic orders. But, experts generally agree, no one under hypnotic commands will do anything contrary to his physical abilities...