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Word: limbering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Picture Man's Picture | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Toe Into Finger | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: No. 1 Facist | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

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