Word: vein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood Boulevard" is a good second feature for it continues in the same light vein. John Halliday plays the part of a once great movie star on the out and out. Being broke and on the verge of ending it all, he turns out to be easy meat for the ambitious owner of a true love story magazine...
...Life's final issue in its original vein, Edward Sandford Martin, now 80, was recalled from editorial retirement to compose its obituary. Wrote the man whose name appeared in Life's first masthead with that of Founder Mitchell: "That Life should be passing into the hands of new owners and directors is of the liveliest interest to the sole survivor of the little group that saw it born at 1155 Broadway in January 1883. ... As for me, I wish it all good fortune; grace, mercy and peace and usefulness to a distracted world that does not know which...
...natural modesty was changed to-well, I don't know what. Clearly one should be very cautious about taking these liberties with one's mind, and that is the point; the higher parts of the central nervous system were the first things to suffer." In similar vein at Yale last week Sir Joseph recalled how he had sat in a room suffused almost to the killing point with carbon dioxide gas. Of this odorless gas which appears, among other places, in the exhaled breath of all animals, Sir Joseph declared: "The highest percentage which I know to have...
...fact that my entire "life" was reported in a purely ironical vein should have been clear to any child old enough to read nursery rhymes, but apparently eluded Mr. Tunis's keen perception in his anxiety for headline material. I have not been able to secure a copy of his book [Was College Worth While?], but judging from the reviews he has lifted a sentence out of its context and omitted a qualifying phrase completely, without seemingly offending his sense of journalistic honor. In case anyone takes sufficient interest, which I doubt, to prove Mr. Tunis's conclusions...
MIDNIGHT-Julian Green-Harper ($2.50). Fantastic melodrama revolving around an old house and a creepy crew of eccentrics who fill it, in the vein of Author Green's Avarice House and The Closed Garden...