Word: defective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This statement, by W. P. Lipscomb, co-author with Rubeigh James Minney of Clive of India, suggests both the defects and virtues of the picture. Its principal defect is that, as material for cinema biography, Clive's life contained too much. Consequently, Authors Lipscomb & Minney felt obliged to condense the siege of Arcot into a subtitle, while devoting extensive footage to the efforts of Margaret Clive (Loretta Young) to keep her husband (Ronald Colman) in England when he felt that his destiny lay in India. Its virtue is that no account of such a career could be more than...
...orthopedic surgeons have the duty not only of relieving the patient of physical deformity, but of watching over his mental training during the long periods of hospitalization. The cripple must be made to understand that while his disability can be greatly relieved, he will always carry some slight defect and his chances of success in life can be greatly helped by proper psychological preparation...
Exclaimed pious Catholic Smith: "The present penal law is not adequate to prevent public mingling and exhibitions of naked men and women. If such action is not an offense against public decency, this league will ask the Legislature to speedily remedy this defect in the law and make it so. It seems to us inconsistent to take a stand for decency on the screen and ignore this latest challenge to the enforcement of decency in reality, We cannot overlook indecency in the substance while condemning it in the shadow...
...grave defect of the book--though the paper on "Piers Plowman" somewhat mitigates it--is Mr. Dawson's failure to relate the break-up of the mediaeval synthesis to social phenomena like the decline of feudalism, that all-embracing system of "organized anarchy," as Professor Haskins once called it. And surely the XIVth century hurly-burly can be shown to be related to the Reformation by economic ties; it is certainly significant that the English schism, in its early stages, was less doctrinal than political, and was anyhow not altogether to be attributed to the amorous ways of Henry VIII...
...only will men with a definite defect in their speech be detected and a cure suggested, but a larger percentage of the men, while having no rest obstacle to satisfactory utterance, may be found inept in composing their thoughts orally. If this same percentage is also unsatisfactory in clarify of diction. It may be inferred that there is something significantly lacking in the present educational process