Word: broken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General" Mitchell marshaled battalions of statistics to show how U. S. court business has increased, cited the case of Judge Joseph West Molyneaux of Minneapolis who ''has broken down from overwork and is unable to return to the bench." On June 30 there were 149,033 cases, civil and criminal, pending in U. S. courts...
...Taming of the Shrew (United Artists). When Shakespeare made characters out of medieval chronicles just like the living English people he knew, and wrote words for them which often sounded like real talk in spite of being broken up into iambic lines, he was doing what the producers of this cinema have done in their turn. They have created no pedantic replica of Elizabethan comedy, but a vivid, hilarious farce. They have paid Shakespeare the double compliment of using hardly a word that he did not write and of brightening his meaning with new pieces of pantomime that are exactly...
...Your Health? contains a trio of hypochondriacs whose health fluctuates according to moods and the vagaries of a broken blood-pressure gauge. Connoisseurs will be reluctant to believe that this comedy was actually written by Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson...
...interpretation of the origin of the asteroids, those thousands of tiny bodies that circulate around the sun in orbits between those of Jupiter and Mars, leaves much to be desired. Are they fragments of one or more small planets broken up by collision, or are they the wreckage of a planet that came too near to the gigantic Jupiter? Persistent observation and the development of mathematical theories should in time solve this mystery...
...discreet in your choice of companions for the next two hours, and without burdening your own mind other than opening the door of its receiving tube, you will learn the solution of every trick just before the gun is shot in front of you, or the paper broken on the stage. The blending of the "Behind his back"s, "False slide"s, "Easee, easee"s, "Get e idear"s, gives you a comfortable feeling of your own superiority...