Word: sinuousness
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Over an operating table in Manhattan stood a huge old man. His surgeon's gown hung straight from broad shoulders. Its sleeves ended in neat, starched bands about his wrists, just above monstrously big and bony hands, hands that opened, closed with sinuous, powerful contractions, extensions. The surgeon was about to go to work...
...begin with, "Made For Love" has to do with the pyramids, desert Bedouins, the Valley of the Kings, and such things, which, as everyone knows, are fascinating subjects and enough to make a wow of any movie. Leatrice Joy is a sinuous and seductive heroine with a surprising hair cut. She doesn't look at all, like a star of other days staging a come-back. Opposite her la Edmund Burns whose handsome face has a tendency to fall into a peculiar half sour expression which reminded us of the new explanation of the physiognomy of a certain famous--well...
Most important of the islands of Hawaii is Oahu on which Honolulu is situate. Eight miles to the west of the city, the land recedes in a sinuous curve and ten square miles of Pacific Ocean rolls in through a channel, mountain-flanked. This is Pearl Harbor where ships may ride, safe from storm, safe from hostile view. Behind it rises the impassable Koolau and Waianae mountains. As a naval base, it is unexcelled...
...satin skirt and bodice, a purple velvet jacket and hat, a bunch of crimson roses tied with baby-blue ribbon. Second, the Russian ballet divertissements which lent touches of exotic sprightliness at the conclusion of the evenings. The agonies of Tosca were thus relieved by Rimsky-Korsakov's sinuous Siamese Dance...
...curtain rises on ruffians and rebels. Lieutenant-General Castillo is a walking menace to law and order, and his chief, the redoubtable Ohdearno, lends dignity and solidity to the desperate undertaking. And then there is Anita, incarnation of sinuous wickedness and unscrupulous grace -- alluring, exotic, venomous. You can imagine what trouble she makes. Even in the face of death and its dread alternative, matrimony, our friends find heart for song and dancing, yet the story bravely progresses towards its climax, with real sparks crackling from the wireless machine. All the characters turn up, and even the red-headed office...