Word: affair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enjoying acute cases of indigestion when they see what Mr. Irwin has done with their favorite little tricks. The astute reporter, amateur detective par excellence, successfully makes a dummy out of Sergeant Kellius of the Rome police. The villain becomes the hero, the hero becomes the villain, the love affair is consummated prettily, in fact the ardent detective story reader, if he choose to take this seriously, can find no faults with the orthodoxy of the technique. But the reader who thumbs the pages from a previously experienced appreciation of Mr. Irwin as a humorist will find the greatest value...
Curtly last week President Roosevelt informed Chairman McSwain that the Generals' views were neither his nor the nation's, that should the affair be repeated, he would pre-censor all army testimony before Congress. Mr. McSwain humbly apologized for the blunder...
...killed, in spite of the code's insistence on "straight killing." But neither lower court found the Schechters outside the law because they worked employes longer than code hours, paid them less than code wages. Both courts decided that the code's labor provisions affected an intrastate affair with which the Federal Government had no right to meddle. Jointly the Schechters and the Government appealed to the Supreme Court on the points which each had lost...
...approach to human values than such a picture as The Scoundrel (see above), this effort by one of Hollywood's most famed directors is correspondingly more childish in its manner. After winding through an interminable succession of overdecorated scenes, in which flashbacks show the progress of the love affair while the elderly lover tells the story of it to his latest and most formidable rival (Cesar Romero), it ends in a sequence which, because Director von Sternberg wanted it to mean one thing for stupid audiences and another for intelligent ones, winds up as a feeble ambiguity. Most tedious...
...eyes to see autobiographical likenesses in Hervey, the book's central character, may catch suggestions of other actual people (notably Novelist John Boynton Priestley). Love in Winter carries on the careers of the characters introduced in Company Parade, but the central narrative tells of Hervey's love affair with her cousin. Nicholas Roxby. Both are married-Hervey to a no-account weakling who has failed her again & again, is now idling at Oxford; Nicholas to a spoiled wife from whom he is separated. Like many of his generation. Nicholas has been nearly used up by the War; Hervey...