Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...empress of all the Russias. Her mother-in-law, Marie Feo-dorovna, beloved of the people, was so steeped in sorrow that she paid very little attention to Alexandra; but the various grand duchesses took pains to make her difficult position yet more difficult with their resentful jealousies. Bashful, awkward, guileless, Alix, now Alexandra Feo-dorovna, disdained the gentle art of flummery, and was only took frank in her disapproval of Russian frivolity...
...Masks of the Devil. Author Henry James in parentheses, Playwright Eugene O'Neill in asides, made their characters utter their real thoughts during conventional dialog, a device awkward in fiction or on the stage but natural and effective in the many pictures which have contained hints of it. Used here to great extent, the trick adds interest to Jacob Wassermann's short story about the Baron (John Gilbert) who has the face of an archangel, the soul of a devil, and a lust for the fiancee (Eva Von Berne) of his friend. In an effort to live...
Undeniably the situation was awkward. Nearly every British newspaper and review had said, last month, what a shame it was that Mr. Houghton had resigned as Ambassador (TIME, Oct. 8) and sailed for New York, to stand for one of the Senatorial seats from that state as a Republican. When the Republican candidate was elected President of the U. S., casual Britons supposed that Mr. Houghton must have been elected too, and that they had seen the diplomatic last of him. But instead he was defeated, and so he was back in London last week as Ambassador...
...stern editorial, betrayed the liveliest inferiority complex. It baited Messrs. Morgan & Morrow with representing both the U. S. and Wall Street in Mexico, and climaxed: "By such toplofty behavior Mr. Morgan only got himself into a scene where he had not been invited, and called attention in a most awkward and public manner to the close business connections between himself, Miss Morrow's father and the United States government...
...Trial. The Warner Brothers' Vitaphone gets a thorough trial in this oldtime courtroom melodrama by Elmer Rice. The verdict: well cast, well talked, well acted, but with a few awkward pauses. The action consists entirely of courtroom testimony with flashbacks to show the events leading up to the murder. It is gradually revealed that Husband No. 1 was justified in killing Husband No. 2, because Husband No. 2 had treated the wife of Husband No. 1 in a dastardly manner. Best shot: a sleepy judge. Best acting: 44-year-old Pauline Frederick and 8-year-old Vondell Darr...