Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...viewed, the freckled face of Tommy Kelly of the Bronx was selected as that bearing closest resemblance to the public's conception of Mr. Clemens' hero. Although such old-timers as Walter Brennan and May Robson lend adult support, all of the minors are new to the camera and act with that unaffected naturalness that Norman Taurog's directing brings out. The picture is in Technicolor...
...last fortnight the industrious trainers had taught the elephants to run through these capers without a hitch. Then members of Missouri prohibition clubs and the Anti-Saloon League protested, called the act "not very edifying." Few days later the zoo's board of control watched the elephants perform, called the protest "ridiculous." The show went on, drew enthusiastic applause from its first audiences this week...
...vote was only the first step of a procedure which may take six months to work out under the complex machinery provided by the Railway Labor Act. And the unions might still strike when this arbitration period ended. Said Railway Labor's spokesman, Chairman George Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives Association last week: "Wage cuts are out of the question...
...pale, homely, contradictory John Peter Altgeld, Governor of Illinois, prison reformer, idealist, lawyer, wealthy real-estate operator and builder of one of Chicago's first skyscrapers. Last week Altgeld's story was told in a 496-page volume which gave the governor's reasons for his act, showed its consequences not only in his own career, but in the history of the Populist movement...
...Vagabond had a suspicion they were a little high. They didn't act just right...