Word: sycophantic
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The Good Earth's theme is the love of the Chinese peasant for his land and his dependence upon it. Most of its major scenes are plucked straight from the novel. On his wedding day, Wang Lung (Paul Muni), son of a poor farmer (Charles Grapewin), goes to the...
The upshot of all this, when he gets back to Shanghai, is enough to give pause even to an idealist as confirmed as Stephen Chase. Credit for his lamp has been assigned to one of his superiors. The position which should have been his reward for meritorious service has gone...
"Even so, such tags provide interesting material for a study of the times." The tutor idly leafed a copy of "Dichtung und Wahreit" which belonged to the bedraggled sycophant. "Just as these strange inscriptions will interest the historians of two thousand years from now. From this flyleaf they will reconstruct...
The author of "O Rare Ben Johnson" writes the amazing record of Elizabeth's Lord Chancellor, the brilliant philosopher, statesman, sycophant, whose downfall was the climax of one of the most astonishing careers in history.
Since Painter Brush is already 74 years old, it is unlikely that he will collect any money from Mrs. Brooks-Aten. No foxy sycophant tricking unwary ladies with oiled flatteries for which they can ill afford to pay, Artist Brush had better things to do last week than to gloat...