Word: blemishes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...talking picture of newspaper life, starring Robert Armstrong, Carol Lombard, and Sam Hardy, holds your interest to the end. The cynical, sarcastic atmosphere of the news room is there: the big scoop, the ceaseless waste of energy. Even a trite denouncements brought about through a dictaphone roll, does not blemish the effect of the whole...
This seems a blemish on Boston's coat of arms, a blind-deaf-mute behind bars on a field sable, with motto "Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil." But it can be forgiven on the premise that actions speak louder than words...
...last-minute blemish on the scene was abruptly removed when Secretary Avenol spied a disobedient British correspondent in a checkered suit, pushed him into an alcove...
Despite the popularity of Their Majesties?or perhaps because of it?misguided subjects contrive to scratch initials and other devices on the Royal bodies surprisingly often. Policy seems to dictate that the Crown shall not proceed against such petty offenders. Every blemish is patiently and skillfully obliterated (with sandpaper and quick drying varnish) during the night after it is discovered...
...moral aspect, therefore, the objector may well confine himself; it betrays a sufficient number of facts for discussion; on it alone may a solid case be built. Does inviolate tradition condone all? Does an air of the sacrosanct vindicate every blemish on the tabernacle? The reply is obviously one which must bow to the canons of good taste. Until the daily vaudeville ceases the public will be expected to stop, to stare, perhaps to snicker in adolescent fashion. But the public stops not to be entertained--these diversions have no relation to the word--but rather in amazement...