Word: aristocratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...miles around, sat themselves in rows on square-hewed logs, shivered expectantly as they waited to get the jerks, the barks, the hysterical whoops-&-jingles. Brother Semple preached the opening sermon at nightfall, on The Death of a Sinner. He panicked the crowd, laid them in holy rolling rows. Aristocrat Lou Crawford, who had come curiously with her uncle, soon wished she hadn't. Mob hysteria laid her low, nearly scared her out of her skin. Up front in the ''straw pen" (an enclosure made safe for writhing revivalists by strewn straw) male & female sinners flopped...
That way (for an executive) madness lies. Tchitcherin did not go mad but is a weak, sick man today. The bearman learned from Tchitcherin, does not sharpen his own pencils. Tchitcherin would not use an automobile or permit his suits to be pressed, aristocrat that he was. Max, no aristocrat, can and does dress neatly without fear of Soviet gossip. He and Mme Litvinov give Moscow's best, biggest official parties. It is their duty. He must put on long black tails, she a filmy evening dress, and they must dine off gold plate at the Foreign Office...
...Maurier's Trilby except that the character of Trilby (Marian Marsh) is played down and Svengali played up. Barrymore handles all the artifices of the acting trade with gusto and intelligence. He meets Trilby at the time when she has fallen in love with a charming English aristocrat and by his occult power charms her away from her true love so that he can make money exploiting her bell-like voice. He can hypnotize her at any distance, and one of the best shots in the picture suggests how his influence bores through the night. over the rooftops from...
Fenway--"The Millonaire". George Arliss, the aristocrat of the screen turns democrat, in a filling station milieu...
Paul Madvig was the city boss; he had risen to the top of the pile by patience and "guts." But it was Gambler Ned Beaumont's brains that helped him out of many a tough spot. Beaumont did not like the idea of Madvig's supporting aristocratic Senator Henry, thought still less of Madvig's sparking the Senator's daughter Janet. When the Senator's son was found murdered, suspicion soon fell on Madvig, but strangely enough failed to wreck the political alliance between the boss and the aristocrat. Ned Beaumont was used to fishy doings. He said little...