Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...social drama Up Pops The Devil is thin stuff, but as a comedy it is eminently successful. Albert Hackett, one of the two authors, does excellently in the part of a gin-witted journalist, saving a generous helping of the funny lines for himself. Learning that Miss Bates had left Mr. Pryor without informing him of the baby's imminence, he ingenuously inquires "Don't they tell fathers any more...
Author Bromfield manipulates the interweaving skeins of his narrative with skill, never gets inextricably tangled up. His style is thin and without distinction but he tells a good story. Perhaps because of his poverty of style you never feel more emotionally concerned for any of his people than if you had met them in the flesh at a dinner party so viciously dull as old Hector...
...this thin thread of realism Rosamond Lehmann has strung pearls...
...legal cases (viz., "successfully carried through the merger of the Utah Copper Co., with the Boston Consolidated and the Nev. Con. Cos., representing a market value of $100,000,000, for which was paid a lawyer's fee of $750,000;") held a narrow lead with 99 lines. Two thin lines behind, bolstered by 29 academic degrees and memberships in 86 associations, boards, clubs, colleges, congresses, leagues, societies, orders, ran Educator Nicholas Murray Butler. The 95 lines of Preacher & Author William Eleazer Barton, famed father of a famed son (Advertising Man Bruce Barton), eight times an editor, 59 times...
...Sickly pets are fed more often. Since fleas live only a few weeks, a trainer must always have a large stock on hand. New, untrained fleas are kept in bottles, for two or three weeks, handled daily. When the time comes to train a performer, the end of a thin gold wire 2 in. long is fastened collar-fashion about its neck. This collar must be loose enough to allow the flea to eat, but tight enough so it cannot jump through. When fleas are not performing they are kept in boxes with their feet entangled in cotton. Fleamen...