Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Erskine's formula-recasting romantic old tales in ironic, belittling modem dialog-caught the public fancy, made his Private Life of Helen of Troy (1925) a U. S. bestseller. The formula has worn a little thin, but Erskine tales still make pleasant enough reading. Erskine admirers may solace themselves by reflecting that although Anatole France would have done them better, many a Cabellian would have done them worse. In adapting the Tristan legend to his scheme, Author Erskine has of course ousted Tristan from the hero's place, made minor Palamede the heroic figure. Palamede...
...large upright cylinder within which glares a12,000-watt battery of carbon arc lamps. The arcs emit ultraviolet light. The light synthesizes Vitamin D in milk exposed to its irradiation as Wisconsin's Professor Harry Steenbock ; has demonstrated. In operation 3,000 quarts of milk flow in a thin sheet down the inner walls of the cylinder, acquiring Vitamin D in about the same strength as occurs naturally in good cod liver oil. National Carbon Co. of Cleveland and Creamery Package Co. of Chicago worked with the Research Foundation to develop the irradiator. The Foundation is to commercialize...
...explaining the custom of "plucking," but the Vagabond heard not. Somewhere in the vague hinterland beyond the anti-macasser and the cupped ear was a rocking chair. The distance, he remembers, was not great, nor for that matter was the "Half a league Onward," up on the thin green brink of his saucer, however, there teetered an incoherent mass which adicts style cake. It is all very hazy; there were a thousand eyes, and two red ears, a sharp grunt from the possessor of an abused bunion, and then the muffled howl of some lonely offstage Phantom. The Vagabond...
...Thin, unfunny in spots and marred on the première by the brandied roarings of a number of Mr. Astaire's fashionable friends, Gay Divorce nevertheless provides a generous measure of polite entertainment. Luella Gear, cast as Actress Luce's guide, philosopher and friend, is dryly humorous, sings one funny song about a "brave young American girl of 37" who proclaims herself "true to the Red. White & Blue" at a Communist gathering, another about an unfortunate family of Fitches. Eric Blore plays an amusing barman...
Walter Biggar is a thin-faced Scot. He owns a large farm near Dalbeattie, Scotland. He usually dresses in brown. He always carries a cane. He is reputed to be one of the world's best judges of fine cattle. Every year for the past eight he has taken a trip to the U. S. to decide which steer should be named Grand Champion at the International Live Stock Exposition in Chicago...