Word: sustain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture is not of the best, but it does sustain interest, and Charles Butterworth and Charles Winniger should get top honors for the many laughs they provide in this drama of New York at the turn of the century. Both dialogue and action are definitely clean, perhaps suspiciously so. Miss West's fans will find, however, that she wears the gowns of the era to perfection, although they may not like the change from blonde to brunette...
...dean clarified his views and answered Dr. Fishbein by saying: "No man could live on oranges alone, that is, on the natural plane. I have displaced the need for oranges by building up within myself spiritual strength and energy. . . . I intend to prove that the spirit can sustain the body, unaided by food or drink...
...Adolf soon will be over the fence. Minister Delbos reassuringly announced: "France stands by her pledged word that she will submit to all sacrifices to sustain mutual obligations under treaties and support all aims to safeguard peace...
Last week the Board cleared dead Andrew Mellon completely by finding "no doubt" that "the record before us does not sustain the charge of fraud," found the trust that received his pictures was a "valid organization." Dealing with the other disputed transactions one by one, the Board ruled for Mr. Mellon in six of them, against him on three. It found that the sale to Bethlehem Steel Corp. of the McClintic-Marshall Construction Corp., of which he was one of four stockholders, was not a reorganization as he claimed and that his estimated $6,549,000 profits from the deal...
...caught off guard by a Zulu attack, wiped out to a man. But the cinematic plot serves principally as a framework for descriptions of the routine of South African pioneer life: the hunts, skirmishes, prayer meetings, occasional festivals. This more or less documentary side of the book will sustain most readers' interest in a novel that would otherwise be only soso...