Word: surmount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fashion, exhibit strong powers of social satire and characterization. Though Ober-laender lacks much that can be found in Daumier, this small sample of his work is convincing enough to make anyone who sees it want to see more. Humor in art presents difficulties which are not easy to surmount. A ludicrous subject, if not sufficiently restrained by means of proper emphasis upon style and technique will perhaps draw a short but hearty laugh from an onlooker. The same subject performed in a subtle fashion will cause a series of chuckles, and a mellow, not a blatant, memory...
Jeanette MacDonalds "Broadway Serenade," receiving the dubious honor of top-billing, is singularly devoid of all the elements that make a good musical. The plot, alone, places the cast in a hopeless situation, an obstacle they don't even try to surmount. For the climax, there is a dizzy succession of pits, cliffs, instruments, masks, "Lonely Hearts," and Jeanette MacDonald. It features the music of a mad genius, a combination "Johann Strauss, Becthoven, Richard Strauss, Bach, Brahms," and Walt Disney...
Problems that the board must surmount are varied; speeches must be more sharply worded than necessary on the stare; the number of characters speaking in one scene must be limited to prevent confusion; the time element must be surmounted; all sounds must be mentioned by the characters in the play so that they can be clearly recognized. All these factors contribute to the smoothness of the production and are apparent weaknesses in present radio drama...
...destroy." These extraordinary pranks draw the attention of gangsters who kidnap the old man, use his device for stealing. With the help of his daughter Joan (Jean Rogers), a Ranger guard named Jim Travers (Warren Hull) and a number of electrical tours de force, old Mallory manages to surmount beatings, blindness and bullets, finally defeat both gangsters and Ranger. Best shot: a tough gangster named Fingers (Ward Bond) vibrating helplessly from the shocks of a miniature electric chair which Inventor Mallory concocts on the spur of the moment...
With such natural difficulties to surmount as party-line subscribers cut in and out, General Johnson persevered in his dictation, soon developed the point that a storm of this magnitude would have attracted attention around his old prairie home, reached the sentence, "In that sod house the winter's wood was in the shed." Ten minutes later he was still trying to make New York understand "sod house" and "winter's wood." An hour after he began, when both author and syndicate amanuensis were complaining of sore ears, the lines gave out for good on the pregnant phrase...