Word: handed
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...excursions he covers one side of his face, one hand and arm with a chemical, then notes the reaction of the mosquitoes to the substance. Before setting out on another mosquito-hunt last week he published a pamphlet, the work of four years, for the benefit of involuntary mosquito feeders. Following is a summary of his observations on mosquito lotions...
...Work, Mc-Clure's-has in fact little to do with the Havana Post. His function is to lure more U. S. tourists, more U. S. capital to Cuba.* His method: to send writers and artists to Havana. There magnetic Publisher Carl Byoir takes them in hand, makes them see everything, turns them loose to write and draw what they please, confident that the result will be the best type of propaganda for Cuba. Publisher Byoir has frankly assumed the task of exploiting Cuba, frankly admitting that his papers will profit thereby...
Blushing happily, Louis Fisher, owner of the new champion, held his winner in one hand, gathered the trophy (a silver loving cup) into the other. He predicted new triumphs for "The Pride...
...eminently successful cinematic formula, has in one way been energized and in another way sterilized by the sound device. Frontier atmosphere, crystallized in words and incidental noises, and the opportunity offered to expert modern photographers by frontier hillscapes have proved important at the box office. On the other hand, the speed of the old western, that unstoppable rush of visual images which would have been a highly exciting thing even without any story at all, is gone. Its absence was never proved more definitely than by The Arizona Kid. For this is no sophisticated echo of an old form...
...Call-me-Johnnie") Johnson landed last week at Port Darwin, Australia, a national heroine. Three days behind the record of Harold J. L. ("Bert") Hinkler, Miss Johnson's 11,500-mi. flight in a little secondhand, patched-up airplane, over perilous terrain and sharky waters, with an infected hand and short on sleep, was yet an amazing feat. Said she at Surabaya, Java, before starting across the Timor Sea: "The less I think of this, the better I know this last stretch will be the biggest fright of my life. . . . Oh, you don't know that forlorn feeling...