Word: tenuously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doubt where a doubt exists; they should remember that while there are numerous cases on which all authorities would agree, there are half as many more on which no two agree--and concede the point; they should remember that the line dividing idiomatic and colloquial French is ever tenuous, ever changing; and finally they should bear in mind that the spectacle of hairsplitting grammarians is matched in absurdity only by that of hair-splitting theologians. Oran Corbett...
...dissipate the abysmal ignorance of the Vagabond. At last, after weeks of anxious waiting, succor arrived. Today at ten o'clock he will go to Emerson H there to hear Professor Sarton lecture on Pasteur. The Vagabond doesn't know much about Pasteur, but he has a vague and tenuous idea that he was a doctor, or a scientist or a medical man of some ability. He also had something to do with pasteurized milk, which the Vagabond always believed in his youth meant milk obtained from cows who grew up in a pasture. Quite frankly the Vagabond is sorry...
...which the gangsters who were going to take Gary Cooper and Sylvia Sidney for a ride are themselves taken for a ride. The story is made valid by such details and is no less properly in the Hugo tradition if several of its episodes are entirely incredible, the plot tenuous. When the action makes orderly headway it is concerned with the difficulties that oppose the happiness of Miss Sidney and Gary Cooper, who works in a shooting gallery but later becomes a beer runner. Typical shot: Guy Kibbee murdering a friend while he shakes hands with...
...cardboard and sheet-lead, then articulated so that they could move. A German designer, Mrs. Lotte Reiniger, working with Walter Ruttmann (who made for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari expressionistic sets never surpassed in the cinema) spent three years on The Adventures of Prince Achmed. The story is tenuous. Achmed makes love, goes to war, combats a sorcerer in settings and among characters taken from the Arabian Nights. Aladdin is there, though now he has to light his lamp instead of rubbing it to summon genii. There are the Sultan, the Magic Horse, the fairy Peri-Banov, the Princess Dinarzade...
...Wake" is perhaps the best of the collection. The plot is more tenuous than the others in the book, so Byrne is thrown entirely upon his own power of phraseology to carry if off successfully. It is here that we find him most like the Byrne of "The Wind Bloweth," or "Hangman's House...