Word: virginally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newspaper: "I regret to say that, in my opinion, Epstein is almost certainly guilty of an error in diagnosis. The lady, I think, is not pregnant. . . . The abdominal tumor in position and in salience is not that of pregnancy. . . . The mammary condition is that of an adipose virgin and not of a primiparous woman whose delivery is drawing near. . . . On the available evidence ... I believe that the hopes of her admirers will be disappointed, and that no new birth is about to reward her for her obvious suffering. I can almost fancy that her expression indicates that she herself...
Flaying the "modernistic, rationalistic preacher" as a "curse to the Church," Dr. Matthews pointed out that no one can become evangelistic who does not believe in "the Virgin Birth, the Deity of Christ, His vicarious death, physical resurrection and ascension. ..." Nor can a worldly person make a conversion. "No deaconess ever led a girl to Christ at the whist table." Estimating modernism and rationalism as failures, he recommends positive, evangelical action...
This year the Romberg romance has been laid in French Indo-China by Librettists Oscar Hammerstein II and Frank Mandel. In this comparatively virgin territory a young woman (Charlotte Lansing) weds a young man (William Williams) although his upstanding brother (J. Harold Murray) is also in love with her. Unfortunately, Actor Williams succumbs to the swimming hips of a dancing girl (Ahi). The musical journey leads to Paris, where Actress Lansing goes from good to bad, then to Marseilles, where she goes from bad to worse. Honest Actor Murray, of course, finally finds, redeems...
...tray; a blood-thirsty colonel; an aged, blind embezzling financier?Colman enjoys a badman's holiday. He plots with his confreres to steal the funds which the embezzling financier has secreted on the premises. When he has done so, he gives most of the money away to a tattered virgin (Fay Wray) who describes herself as a "desert Cinderella" and seems to have gotten into the picture when no one was looking. The Unholy Garden has the defect of implausibility but it is not wholly stupid. Good shot: Colman reproving an Algerian servitor who licks his chops when announcing that...
...Thomas, Virgin Islands...