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...feverish that it quivers between bright beauty and absurdity. The last of the seven, "The Return of Anaconda," carries a boa constrictor down the Parana River in a flood, has the jungle talking, raises the gooseflesh. All the stories are delicately translated by Anita Brenner, gain spice in the weird black-and-whites of Mordecai Gorelik...
Warner, Fox. Weird among U. S. industries is the cinema business. Last week Warner Bros., until recently considered healthy and prosperous, suffered a new ailment and Fox Films, recently almost fatally ill, was shown to be practically cured...
Verano, the dry, summer season of Spanish-America, left its mark in parched river beds and many leafless trees, some bearing weird green fruits, others ablaze with blossoms, yellow, white or pink. These conditions in the lowlands made plant hunting not as favorable as in the hills, for there vegetation grew thickly because of the continual moisture, supplied by low-lying clouds. Here scores of odd lichens, curious, climbling epiphytic plants, growing on all available tree trunks in the darkly forested places gave witness to the unending persistency of jungle life, besides affording rich material for the steel cases...
When the average citizen hears Chicago mentioned, a somewhat hazy compound of stockyard smells, machine guns, stool pigeons for King George, and weird government wells up in his subconscious mind. When the same a. c. hears Boston, the subconscious first offers cod, tentatively; then follows up with culture, Concord, and the Tea Party, and closes firmly with censors. In Example One, there is no reaction of "culture"; in Example Two, the main reaction is "culture...
JUNE MOON?The weird and ludicrous creatures who write the nation's songs...