Word: overflow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...film, there is an exquisite prologue; and to sketch this prologue is to sum up the spirit that runs through "Zwei Herzen." It is a summer's day in Vienna, and the year is 1830. In Franz Schubert's music room, all casements are opened wide. Window-boxes overflow with flowers, and in the crooked street without, sunshine dapples the cobblestones. Schubert, at his harpsichord, looks up from his music, sees the world through the window, and finds it good. His fingers stray over yellowed keys; they frame the melody of a little dance. Too gay a thing...
...Experiment. A call for Saxons to work in "labor platoons" was sounded by the Government. The work offered, it was clearly stated, would be hard, manual. Dikes would be built along two small Saxon rivers whose chronic tendency is to overflow. No labor-saving devices would be used, labor being the project's main object. Each platoonsman would receive a wage of 50 pfennigs (12?) per day, could eat as much as he liked thrice daily, must sleep in labor platoon barracks, seeing his family only on weekends...
...Bickford) who is court physician to the potentate. The latter, a villain addicted to oily smiles and platitudes, threatens to throw her husband to the crocodiles in the palace pond. He is foiled by a combination of circumstances which includes the eruption of a volcano whose streams of lava overflow the palace. Rose Hobart and Charles Bickford, thoroughly reconciled, escape in a sampan...
Cases of infantile paralysis increased from 800 to more than 1,200 in New York City last week. Most were confined to Brooklyn. But there was an overflow into Westchester County. New Haven had almost 100 cases. Boston had 20 of its own and 21 brought in from other communities. The U. S. Public Health Service found "a few more cases than usual . . . in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. But the increase was almost negligible" over the normal for summer months. Except New York, New Haven and Boston, large cities of the country were totally...
...descriptions of such conditions that have been current, verbally and in writing, since the Armistice. Nevertheless, audiences who saw the first showings of War Nurse last week frequently laughed at the wrong times. Audiences can absorb visible violence only up to a definite saturation point, after which they overflow into the only available reaction-laughter. But if the violence is presented through the brain of some character, in whose place the audience can stand, there is no saturation point. As a loose-jointed account of how life went on for a group of girls just behind the Front, War Nurse...