Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tutorial system is trying to plug the gap between courses. This is an inefficient and half-baked way of giving another course. Much more benefit can be derived from a tutorial system making an intensive study of problems springing from courses, than from a system which spreads a pitifully thin veneer of knowledge over the whole History fabric...
...descendants of English, Irish. Welsh and Slavic laborers imported for the purpose since 1830. "The operators,'' said the Governor, "brought these people into the mining regions and made millions off them. Then they suddenly closed down the mines and said, 'Go make your living on thin air.' I am afraid there can be no solution until the operators recognize their moral obligations to these people...
After the Thin Man (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) avoids the pitfall of most sequels, that of seeming a weak copy of the original, by being so much like its original that only experts in Dashiell Hammett plots will be able to tell the difference. In this picture, Asta. Detective Nick Charles's wire-haired terrier, has a mate, and the scene of operations is San Francisco instead of New York. In other respects, Mr. & Mrs. Charles (William Powell and Myrna Loy) maintain unchanged the amiably frantic domesticity which, in The Thin Man, set the style for detective cinema...
Unlike Sherlock Holmes, who had recourse to narcotics, Detective Nick Charles depends solely upon alcohol. In After the Thin Man, he sets a new record for deductive drinking. Fortified by a few nips aboard the train, he and his wife arrive in San Francisco to find a party already in progress at their house. After a few nips more, they go to a family dinner, where Nick drinks the other male guests into a stupor. When it turns out that the scapegrace husband of Mrs. Charles's pretty cousin (Elissa Landi) has mysteriously disappeared, Nick Charles finds...
Before Detective Charles has pinned responsibility for the murder to the least likely character involved, After the Thin Man has introduced to cinema audiences as amusing a group of suspects as Author Hammett, its No. 1 purveyor of this specialty, has yet contributed to the screen. Included are: a monosyllabic cabaret keeper (Joseph Calleia) who shoots at Detective Charles in an apartment house basement; Mrs. Charles's Aunt Katherine (Jessie Ralph), who breaks photographers' cameras with an umbrella as big as a pole-vault pole; mild young David Graham (James Stewart), in love with Mrs. Charles...