Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stated revelations were just about the most alarming which an official of the French Republic could make with any semblance of discretion. Significantly the French people last week gave no sign of having been alarmed. "The man in the street," correspondents soon cabled, "seems inclined to laugh the whole thing...
Last summer Dr. Seifriz overwhelmed with gratitude his friends at the Pasteur Institute by taking across the Atlantic a bowlful of Physarum polycephalum. Well might they be pleased with such a thing to study for this mold in many ways is the lowest visible form of life. Bacteria are smaller than the mold cells but their claim to superlative primitiveness is "questionable" and they are harder to study. Amebas are also simple bits of protoplasm, but they have something which Physarum lacks-a contractile vacuole (cavity) which squirts body fluids to the outside...
High Flyers (RKO Radio), a prettified thing of unfunny gags and attenuated plot, writes a wavering finis to Wheeler-Woolsey film comedy. The cinema first paired Robert Woolsey and Bert Wheeler in 1929 in Rio Rita. Since then they have been teamed in a dozen or more comedies, hitting their stride with pictures like Half Shot at Sunrise, Hold 'Em Jail, Hips, Hips, Hooray, skidding badly of late with Silly Billies, Mummy's Boys. Goggled, gaunt, aging Robert Woolsey completed High Flyers with a fever of 102, a doctor and nurse in attendance, has been ordered into retirement...
...thinking, should look like the sea," says Artist Waugh. "Personally, my own liking is for purely decorative design, running into the abstract. I claim painting has qualities like music, if one goes after them-a thing in itself, not in existence before it is painted into existence...
...Toklas, she enjoyed getting a luxurious stateroom on the Champlain for less than the price of a small one, as one of the privileges of fame. "People always had been nice to me," she confesses, "because I am pleasing but now this was going to be a different thing...