Word: tame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bryant does not overplay his hand. He admits that Pepys. after the death of his wife, "formed a connection" with one Mary Skinner, that he delighted in the emoluments and furbelows of his high office, that he accepted presents occasionally-red sprats, a tun of Rhenish wine, even a tame lion...
...routine hazards of adapting a literary classic for the screen are increased in this case by the fact that an earlier adaptation in which Douglas Fairbanks performed in 1921 was a screen classic in its own right. That any subsequent version of the Dumas work would seem tame by comparison was almost inevitable. Consequently, it is to the credit of Author Dumas, Screenwriter Dudley Nichols, Director Rowland V. Lee and a cast of capable sword & cloak actors that this one is still a handsome, charming, and vivacious costume melodrama which, if something less than a cinema milestone, is still better...
Developments and the conclusion of the Callaway Socks Case were rather tame yesterday as George Ryan, petty thief caught in 52 Mt. Auburn Street on Saturday, October 5, pleaded guilty of larceny of property from Samuel R. Callaway '36 and was given a suspended sentence of two years in the house of correction...
...forty or his actual twenties, depending on the camera used and the amount of re-touching. He was a professed hick and already losing his tin, flame-colored hair rapidly when Delta Tau Delta at the University of Oklahoma pledged him. That made no difference; the brothers hoped to tame their alfalfa cowboy. In the meantime, he went to work leading a college orchestra. That got him three meals day low grades, and a reputation for having a singing voice with a twang to it. In spite of the Delta, he remained a hill-billy...
...love." Awed and impressed by such tempestuous passion, Carl Raswan received the confidences of the lovers, was present at their meetings. Faris would put his hand over Tuema's heart, saying thoughtfully: "It jumps like a wild rabbit." And Tuema would murmur in reply: "It will become quite tame...