Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York, when through a ruse she has a chance to make a hit. Menjou tries to spoil the play by "mugging." His wife deserts him for a young playwright. Menjou disappears, grows nobly poor and seedy. Wobbling between comedy and sentiment, The Great Flirtation is a raised eyebrow, uncertain and unalluring. Typical shot: the last, in which Menjou and Landi both act brave lies, the worst one winning...
...during the age of Flaming Youth. When he was in high school the Crash came and that was something real enough to make a mark upon him. It cut his allowance and put a furrow in his father's brow. He heard talk of hard times and an uncertain future. He saw breadlines. And worst of all, as his time to enter it drew near, there has come a terrible fear that the world would have no place...
Labeling as undesirable the patenting by members of the faculty of discoveries or inventions bearing on matters of health and therapeutics, the Corporation has adopted certain rules which are aimed at preventing the recurrence of such episodes as the Emerson-Drinker affair of two years ago. Uncertain at that time which stand to take, the Corporation took no action, but at last it has formulated a commendable policy...
...almost fractured her skull, suffered a sunstroke. When she returned to Hollywood, her young husband, who had remained behind, got their marriage annulled. Wife of one of the Trader Horn actors sued her for $50,000 for alienation of affection. And M-G-M doctors took her in charge. Uncertain were they whether her debility was due to disease contracted in Africa or to a neurotic temperament. Before she finally collapsed she acted in three more pictures for independent producers. Since then she has been on Dr. Woodruff's hands. He is destitute. The Motion Picture Relief Fund contributes...
...advantages of such an alliance to impoverished Bulgaria were obvious, but there was just one point on which Foreign Minister Jeftitch was insistent. Jugoslavia would join no pact unless the Bulgarian Government could prove its capacity to handle the noisy Macedonian minority that has made life hideous and uncertain in Sofia for many a year. On his honor, Premier Nicholas Mushanoff swore that Bulgarian Macedonians have been as mild as lambs since last June, though up to that time Bulgarian papers reported a Macedonian murder nearly every day. Last major operation was in December 1932, when a party of Macedonians...