Word: limbering
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...keeps his audience strained with a most effective dramatic time bomb - the constant feeling that something very bad is about to occur. Bette Davis helps with a display of psychopathic evil as repulsive as her Mildred in that other Somerset Maugham cinema success, Of Human Bondage. Herbert Marshall, more limber than usual, behaves appropriately for a true-blue British colonial. James Stephenson, hitherto confined to furnishing British background, gives the part of the lawyer a distinguished, neatly devised piece of acting...
...present, said the doctors, the new finger has good color, good circulation. The child cannot flex it completely, but it is gradually growing more limber. And it looks more like a finger every...
Returning alone and tired to his Villa Torlonia home one evening some years ago, Benito Mussolini decided on the spur of the moment to go into a cinema. He entered and took a seat, unrecognized. Presently, his own limber face flashed on the screen. Everyone present stood up and applauded, except Il Duce. His secret enjoyment of the demonstration was interrupted by a man behind him who leaned over and whispered: "Better stand up and clap, pal. They'll arrest...