Word: temperamental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"There are two things that measure Ross's genius. One was the fact that he never deluded himself on how little he knew?and he learns some things rapidly; the other was his sublime dissatisfaction with everything and everyone as he battered his way to what he was after but...
"It appears that the services performed by stars and directors are of such character, and, moreover, their temperament is of such a character, that complete contentment is necessary to the proper performance of their work.
Completion of the new plant marked the almost complete retirement of La Prensa's publisher and principal owner, Don Ezequiel P. Paz. Son of the late Dr. José C. Paz, who turned out the first copy of La Prensa 65 years ago on a tiny hand press, Don...
Der Angriff, personal organ of ecstatic Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Paul Josef Goebbels. last week found a new villain to hiss at-the stolid, pedantic Press of Switzerland. ''The Swiss newspapers," roared Der Angriff, "are read only by those in Germany who have already emigrated in spirit...
In the Belgian Congo the dread tsetse fly, transmitter of African sleeping sickness, was a menace. The cinemactors protected themselves by anointment with a foul-smelling oil which repelled the tsetse flies. Miss Booth, however, contracted malaria and dysentery, fell from a tree and almost fractured her skull, suffered a...