Word: approach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most experienced critics have little patience with the rank & file of young musicians who want to play in public. Marjorie Edwards was well above the average. She exhibited a real flair for the violin, fast-flying fingers that found the notes surely, an earnest sensitive approach to the music she played. Even so, finicky critics refused to pronounce her ripe for a concert career. The quality of her tone was often small and immature, best suited to the soft feathery Cuckoo which delighted her audience so much that she had to play it twice...
...Magnificent Obsession" follows the same story of a man becoming a doctor in order to save the life of the girl he loves. Robert Taylor is the man and Irene Dunne the girl but unfortunately Taylor's acting does not approach he mature work of his leading lady who holds the spotlight. Charles Butterworth and Henry Armetta add their typical bits of humor as newly-wed and valet respectively. It is a generally mediocre piece but entertaining, nevertheless...
...Royce was an idealist and an individualist, opposed in every word and thought to nearly everything for which your Administration has stood. I have felt that he would want a reply made, and have hoped some one far more learned and qualified might undertake the task which I reluctantly approach for want of one more fitted for it. The larger part of your quotation brings to mind his extemporaneous Faneuil Hall mass meeting speech in Boston, following the sinking of the Lusitania, when, though a feeble old man always a hater of war, he held an audience of thousands spellbound...
Stressing the novel approach of the Boston court, Mr. Sands will outline the problem of delinquency and then illustrate his points by specific cases that have come to his attention in the five years he has been Probation Officer...
...volume of business necessary to make it a profitable enterprise. Thereupon the Department of Justice claimed that Columbia Gas & Electric, indirectly controlling the Parish line, was deliberately mismanaging it to keep Texas gas out of Columbia's home territory. It was charged that Columbia, having seen the invader approach its gates, promptly bought a half interest in him and proceeded to render him innocuous...