Word: vein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...consumption the comedy is naturally of that level. The constant hammering of a joke does not, however, seem absolutely necessary. The sequences depicting life in a newspaper office are, as usual, somewhat strange. But this is a minor point, for one of the film is done in a serious vein; and the mad antics of city editor Ameche and star reporter Power only add to the zest of the thing...
RORY AND BRAN-Lord Dunsany-Putnam ($2.50). Adventures of a half-wit youth and his dog in the pixillated Irish countryside; in the same vein but not the same class as James Stephens' Crock of GoId...
Died. Robert Milam Caldwell, 61, nephew of Democratic Elder Statesman Colonel Edward Mandell House; when an electric grindstone at his ranch exploded, hurling a pair of sheep shears against his throat, severing his jugular vein; near Houston...
APRIL-Vardis Fisher-Doubleday, Doran ($2). Idyll of a fat, poverty- stricken farm girl with princess yearnings; Idaho's novelist-laureate in a comic Valentine vein...
...local Russian-Jewish newspaper, Novy Mir ("New World"), took on Comrade Trotsky as an assistant editor at $15 per week, and although his spoken English was extremely halting his sharp eye quickly took the measure of Manhattan, his sharper pen promptly produced this editorial in the most brilliant Bronstein vein...