Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three scholars of different countries dug up the Mendelian laws almost simultaneously, and the modern science of heredity got under way with a bang. Thomas Hunt Morgan made the tough, quick-breeding fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, the most famed insect in the scientific world, correlated hundreds of Mendelian characters with invisible transmitting agents called genes, strung out along the germ-cell chromosomes. It became apparent that Mendel's peas were priceless landmarks in the history of biological science...
...cure Agnes, his ailing milkwagon horse. The story that follows is what hundreds of similar farces have taught cinemaddicts to expect, but the gags are new and Director Leo McCarey keeps them sputtering across the screen at firecracker speed. Funniest scenes: Lloyd learning to box from MacFarland's tough sparring partner (Lionel Stander); teaching the dowager patron of a benefit bout how to duck a punch; knocking out Champion MacFarland, whose seconds have accidentally given him a sleeping potion just before the fight. It Had to Happen (Twentieth Century-Fox) is about a group of glossy New Yorkers...
...belonged to as many guards. "This is a hell of a way to live," complained he. And after his men had picked up two gunmen lurking in front of the Sheriff's office, Chief Donahue growled: "What this town needs is a vigilante committee of about a hundred tough citizens...
...London's tough district of Camberwell last week the new parish hall of St. Giles was ready for rough & tumble political debate. Proudly the vicar, a great believer in upholding the British right of free speech, displayed his invention for cooling off hot hecklers who hurl unparliamentary epithets and at times even paving stones at speakers in St. Giles. The invention is a working fire hydrant installed on the platform with a short length of hose and gleaming brass nozzle convenient to the elbow of the speaker. All windows of the new parish hall are of non-splinterable glass...
BUTCHER BIRD - Reuben Davis - Little, Brown ($2.50). Tough black plantation stuff, showing what a good man's love will do to sublimate a hip-swinging cinnamon-colored wench into a fiction heroine...